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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 9780"><p>To be honest, it sounds like you need more diagnostics done than just verbal...I have lots of ideas but I sure can't just say "it's _____" Check for navel infection (it can spread everywhere), meningitis is a long shot, more of something like ITEME (hemophilus somnus)which can cause paresis/attack the spinal cord, also can cause pneumonia. Check for trauma ie to spine. Vitamin deficiency--vit A comes to mind, as does thiamin (Polioencephalomalacia), both of which can cause blindness and odd neural behaviour. The other things which run through my mind are toxins (either mycotoxins from moldy feed or enterotoxins from bacteria such as e-coli or clostridium perfringens) because they can do lots of wierd things. Frankly, I'd want to examine the calf, esp a neuro exam (reflexes, cranial nerves, vision etc) before I hazarded a guess. It could even be white muscle! (selenium deficiency) For ITEME, the nuflor is great, as for the other bacterial infections. Banamine can cause abomasal ulceration, so watch it, but it does bind toxins (for this I use at 1cc per 200lbs or 1/2 regular dose) Vit A is treated with ADE injection (excess is toxic), Thiamin is also injected. It'd be best to consult your vet--you may have some neat disease there which I'm not thinking of because it's not endemic here--and there are some out there!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 9780"] To be honest, it sounds like you need more diagnostics done than just verbal...I have lots of ideas but I sure can't just say "it's _____" Check for navel infection (it can spread everywhere), meningitis is a long shot, more of something like ITEME (hemophilus somnus)which can cause paresis/attack the spinal cord, also can cause pneumonia. Check for trauma ie to spine. Vitamin deficiency--vit A comes to mind, as does thiamin (Polioencephalomalacia), both of which can cause blindness and odd neural behaviour. The other things which run through my mind are toxins (either mycotoxins from moldy feed or enterotoxins from bacteria such as e-coli or clostridium perfringens) because they can do lots of wierd things. Frankly, I'd want to examine the calf, esp a neuro exam (reflexes, cranial nerves, vision etc) before I hazarded a guess. It could even be white muscle! (selenium deficiency) For ITEME, the nuflor is great, as for the other bacterial infections. Banamine can cause abomasal ulceration, so watch it, but it does bind toxins (for this I use at 1cc per 200lbs or 1/2 regular dose) Vit A is treated with ADE injection (excess is toxic), Thiamin is also injected. It'd be best to consult your vet--you may have some neat disease there which I'm not thinking of because it's not endemic here--and there are some out there!! [/QUOTE]
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