Symptoms and Treatment Scheme of Yellow, White and Red Scour of Piglets

2021-04-05

Qingdao Zhongren Animal Medicine Co., Ltd

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Yellow and white scour of piglets is a major disease that threatens the safety of piglets. These two diseases are caused by pathogenic Escherichia coli and are contagious. If they are not scientifically treated, they can easily lead to death of piglets. The difference is that the yellow scour of piglets mainly occurs in piglets born 3 to 10 days, while the white scour of piglets mainly occurs in piglets born more than 10 days.

Symptoms and Treatment Scheme of Yellow, White and Red Scour of Piglets

Symptoms of yellow scour of piglets

Piglets suffering from yellow dysentery will discharge yellow or gray-yellow watery loose stools containing small bubbles or small pieces of curd. Pigs suffering from yellow dysentery are concentrated on symptoms such as reduced milk intake, dehydration and weight loss, which can even lead to coma or death.

Pathological Changes of Yellow Scour of Piglets

Dissection of the dead pigs can be found in the intestinal mucosa of the sick pigs with symptoms such as congestion or edema, and even the serious ones have fallen off. Observing the intestinal wall of the sick pig, it was found that the intestinal wall had been inflated and thinned, mixed with yellow objects or blood. And the heart, liver and kidney of the sick pig will appear certain lesions.

Symptoms of white scour of piglets

White scour of piglets usually occurs suddenly one after another. Sick pigs will have diarrhea symptoms. Feces are generally pale yellow, Milky White or gray-white paste, which smells fishy and smelly. At the same time, sick pigs will have symptoms such as fear of cold, lack of energy and dehydration, and sometimes spit milk. If the treatment is not timely lead to repeated attacks, it is likely to form a stiff pig and eventually die.

Pathological Changes of White Scour of Piglets

The death of the piglets were dissected, can be found in the pig's gastric mucosa congestion, edema symptoms, the intestinal tract often have gray white content and sour smell. Like pigs who died of yellow dysentery, pigs with white dysentery have thinner intestinal walls and can also cause secondary pneumonia lesions.

Piglet red dysentery is a kind of enterotoxemia of newborn piglets caused by C type Clostridium welchens infection. Piglet red scour occurred in 1 weeks piglets. The main performance of piglets discharge reddish brown blood feces, fishy smell, feces with a small amount of tissue fragments and bubbles. Sometimes the stool is light red or brown in color. The mortality rate is high and the course of disease is short. If the age is more than 7 days, it shows intermittent or persistent diarrhea, and the stool is yellow with mucus. Sick pigs grow slowly and eventually gradually fail and die.

Symptoms of red scour of piglets

The jejunum of dead pigs is hemorrhagic enteritis dark red, and the contents of the intestinal cavity are reddish brown and mixed with small bubbles. Sometimes the disease extends to the anterior segment of the ileum and is clearly delimited from the normal intestinal segment. Extensive bleeding of the mucosa of the diseased bowel, sometimes covered with a gray necrotic pseudomembrane. Sometimes in the jejunum, ileum lesions can be seen in the subserosal number of small bubbles. Mesenteric lymph node enlargement or bleeding. According to the age of onset of piglets, pull blood stool, death fast, jejunum bleeding and other symptoms and lesions can make a preliminary diagnosis.