What are the prevention and treatment methods for swine influenza?
Swine influenza is an acute, infectious respiratory disease of pigs, characterized by sudden onset, coughing, difficulty breathing, fever and rapid recovery. It is caused by influenza A virus (type A influenza virus), usually breaks out among pigs, is highly contagious but usually does not cause death. It occurs most frequently in autumn and winter, but can spread year-round. It is mostly identified as influenza C virus (type C influenza virus), or as one of the subtypes of influenza A virus.
Symptoms of Swine Influenza
Swine influenza has a high incidence rate, with an incubation period of 2 to 7 days and a disease course of about 1 week. In the early stage of onset, sick pigs suddenly develop fever, are listless, have reduced or no appetite, often lie together on their sides, are unwilling to move, have difficulty breathing, severe coughing, and discharge mucus from the eyes and nose. If treatment is not timely during the onset period, it is prone to complicate with bronchitis, pneumonia and pleurisy, etc., increasing the mortality rate of pigs. Body temperature rises to 40°C to 41.5°C, mental depression, reduced or no appetite, muscle pain, unwillingness to stand, sticky fluid discharge from the eyes and nose, conjunctival congestion, some sick pigs have difficulty breathing, panting, coughing, abdominal breathing, sitting-dog posture, wheezing of sick pigs can be heard at night, some sick pigs have joint pain, especially pigs in better body condition are more severely affected.
Treatment of Swine Influenza
1. There is no specific drug for this disease; only symptomatic treatment drugs can be used to relieve the condition and avoid the occurrence of secondary infections. Compound morpholine tablets or compound amantadine tablets and Banlangen granules can be tried for treatment, and the dosage can be determined according to the pig's body weight and the drug content.
2. Administer antibiotics or sulfonamide drugs to prevent bacterial infection.
3. For severely ill pigs, penicillin and streptomycin plus virusling can be injected intramuscularly at the same time, twice a day, for 5 consecutive days.
4. Adding antibiotics and antibacterials to the feed at a ratio of 0.2% can also effectively control the condition.
Prevention of Swine Influenza
1. Strengthen feeding management, increase the nutritional requirements of the pig herd, clean the environmental sanitation regularly, and promptly isolate and treat pigs that are already sick.
2. Qingkailing injection + lincomycin hydrochloride injection + potent amoxicillin, at 0.2 to 0.5 mL per kg of body weight, mixed and injected intramuscularly, once a day, for 3 consecutive days.
3. Mix antiviral No. I powder (400 kg feed/bag) + doxycycline 300 ppm into the feed, mix evenly, and continuously mix into the feed for 10 days. At the same time, add electrolytic multivitamins to the drinking water. After taking the above treatment measures, the condition was quickly controlled, and the whole herd recovered to health after 3 days.
4. The traditional Chinese medicine Jingfang Baidu San has a special effect in preventing swine influenza.
5. Isolate promptly. Pens and feeding utensils should be disinfected with 2% caustic soda solution. Leftover feed and stagnant water should be deeply buried or harmlessly treated. Add 0.05% morpholine guanidine hydrochloride (virusling) to the pig's diet and feed for 1 week.
6. Use 250 grams of mung beans, 100 grams each of Bupleurum and Isatis root, decoct in 10 kg of water and give to pigs to drink; it has a good preventive effect.
Proven Remedies for Swine Influenza
1. Perilla leaf 45 grams, dark plum 30 grams, dried tangerine peel 45 grams, licorice 15 grams, decoct in water and administer.
2. Scallion white 90 grams, ginger 60 grams, add water and boil, use the hot steam to fumigate the pig's mouth and nose, letting the hot steam enter the mouth and nose.
3. 1 egg white, add 400,000 international units of penicillin, inject intramuscularly after dissolving.
4. Scallion white 250 grams, ginger 30 grams, mint 45 grams, decoct in water and administer.
5. Isatis root 60 grams, Isatis leaf 60 grams, schizonepeta 30 grams, decoct in water and administer orally.
6. Siberian cocklebur fruit 25 grams, fry until black and grind into fine powder, mix into a small amount of feed and administer orally.
7. Tea leaves 100 grams, brew with boiling water, then add mung bean powder 200 grams and alum 15 grams and feed.
8. Radish 1000 grams (shredded), 10 scallions, ginger 15 grams, decoct and administer.
9. Mung bean powder 100 grams, white sugar 40 grams, sesame oil 50 grams, 2 egg whites, mix and administer orally.
10. Isatis root and dandelion 100 grams each, notopterygium 20 grams, decoct in water and mix into a small amount of feed for oral administration.
11. Soybeans 250 grams, kudzu root 25 grams, 10 scallions, fresh radish leaves 500 grams, decoct in water and administer orally.
12. Isatis root 66 grams, earthworm 15 grams, white sugar 40 grams, decoct in water and administer orally.
13. Scallion white 20 grams, mung beans 25 grams, 3 slices of fresh ginger, decoct the juice and administer orally.
14. Scallion 65 grams, fermented soybean 40 grams, ginger (or angelica dahurica) 5 grams, add water and decoct into 300 mL of juice, administer orally at one time.
15. Isatis root 100 grams, kudzu root 80 grams, fresh reed rhizome 200 grams, add water and decoct the juice, administer orally in 4 divided doses.
16. Ginger 15 grams, rock sugar 40 grams, decoct into 250 mL of juice, administer orally at one time.
17. Cabbage root and radish 100 grams each, brown sugar 50 grams, scallion white 35 grams, decoct together into juice, finish taking in 1 day.
18. Daylily 45 grams, white pepper powder 1.5 grams, brown sugar 50 grams, decoct together into 200 mL of juice, add 50 mL of vinegar and mix, administer orally at one time.
19. Asarum, Chinese honeylocust fruit and centipeda minima in equal parts, grind into fine powder and mix evenly, take a small amount of the medicine and inhale it into the pig's nasal cavity (centipeda minima may be omitted).
20. Gypsum 30 to 80 grams, ephedra 2 to 4 grams, cassia twig 3 to 6 grams, decoct in water and administer orally.
21. Perilla 6 grams, saposhnikovia 6 grams, schizonepeta 6 grams, platycodon root 9 grams, almond 9 grams, coltsfoot flower 5 grams, aster 5 grams, decoct in water and administer orally (the above is the dosage for a 25 kg pig).
22. Eucommia bark, Aristolochia stem, perilla leaf and mint 15 to 30 grams each, decoct the juice and administer orally; adult pigs take it at one time, piglets take it in 2 doses.
23. Caesalpinia root 32 grams, eucommia bark 6 grams, mint 10 grams, decoct the juice and administer orally for 3 consecutive days.
24. Fresh mock strawberry 60 grams, decoct in water and administer orally, twice a day for 3 to 5 consecutive days.
25. Cudweed (fresh whole plant) 250 grams, decoct the juice and administer orally, twice a day for 2 consecutive days.
26. Goldenrod 33 grams, wild chrysanthemum 33 grams, Solanum lyratum 33 grams, decoct the juice and administer orally; the dosage for piglets is halved.
27. Perilla leaf and ginger 10 grams each, 2 scallion bulbs, decoct in water and administer orally.
28. Ephedra 10 grams, fried almond 6 grams, ginger powder 3 grams, white sugar 30 grams, grind into powder and take with boiling water.
29. Scallion white and dried tangerine peel 10 grams each, decoct in water and administer orally.
30. Atractylodes rhizome 13 grams, schizonepeta, saposhnikovia and cyperus rotundus 10 grams each, ageratum and Pinellia ternata 6 grams each, cut finely, add water, decoct the juice and administer orally.
31. Ephedra 30 grams, cassia twig 40 grams, perilla leaf 60 grams, almond 30 grams, platycodon root 35 grams, licorice 25 grams, ginger 50 grams, scallion white 100 grams as the guiding ingredient. If there is excessive phlegm, add poria; if there is panting, add perilla seed. Grind the medicine into powder and brew with boiling water, or decoct in water and administer orally; mostly used for wind-cold type common cold.
32. Almond 18 grams, platycodon root 30 grams, perilla 30 grams, Pinellia ternata 15 grams, dried tangerine peel 21 grams, Peucedanum praeruptorum 24 grams, poria 30 grams, ginger 30 grams, licorice 12 grams, bitter orange 21 grams, 3 scallion whites as the guiding ingredient, grind together into fine powder and take orally with boiling water. Suitable for wind-cold type common cold with mild fever.
33. Groundsel, wild chrysanthemum, honeysuckle stem and water pepper 15 to 30 grams each, decoct in water and administer orally; used for wind-heat type common cold.
34. Appropriate amount of live toad, open the abdomen and take the liver and gallbladder, grind into a fine paste, dilute at 1:10, filter and subpackage, disinfect and set aside. Inject 3 to 5 mL intramuscularly per pig for 2 to 3 consecutive days. Suitable for wind-heat type common cold.
35. Goldenrod and dried tangerine peel 15 to 30 grams each, decoct in water and administer orally; suitable for common cold.
36. Notopterygium 30 grams, dandelion 50 grams, Isatis root 60 grams; used for a 50 kg pig, decoct in water and administer orally, finish taking in 2 doses a day. For severe wind-cold type common cold, use notopterygium 30 to 60 grams; for weak animals, add codonopsis 30 grams; for severe cough, add platycodon root 30 grams; for common cold with dampness, add Atractylodes rhizome 30 grams; for common cold with food stagnation, add an appropriate amount of charred triplet.
37. For human external use, 3 to 6 mL of essential balm, depending on the size of the pig, inject intramuscularly slowly at one time. If injection is difficult to push, it may be diluted with 2 mL of analgin and then injected, twice a day, 3 times as one course of treatment, until cured.