Treatment and prevention ( Piglet diarrhea disease)

• Immediate treatment because if a piglet has diarrhea for more than 2-3 hours, it will become weak and difficult to recure.

• If piglets have diarrhea at 1 day age, check the udder, temperature, and milk production of the sow, as milk is the main cause of diarrhea for piglets.

• In such cases, we need to treat both the mother and the piglets.

• For piglets:

 Use colistin with ampicillin, injected intramuscularly twice a day until recovery.

 Piglet cages must be covered to protect them from cold winds or heated using electric lamps, gas lamps, earthen pots with charcoal, or charcoal-burning stoves, because cold or freezing temperatures in the cage can cause pigs to have diarrhea, especially at night.

 After birth, the piglets should be given first milk as soon as possible because it contains antibodies that can fight E. coli.

• For Sow:

 We can treat with trimethoprim with sulfa, injected intramuscularly once a day for 3 consecutive days.