[Jacob-list] sheep update... still need some advise

[Karen Askounis]

Nick had asked about using steroids with pneumonia. I'll start by saying
that I am a small animal vet and have not practiced on sheep since vet
school (until recently getting started with Jacobs.) That being said I can
say in general you would not want to use steroids in the face of infection.
In dogs and cats we would only use them if there was so much
swelling/inflammation that we felt they needed the effects to be able to
breathe. I also belong to a small ruminant list (to update my sheep medicine
skills) and it does seem that use of steroids in the face of infection seems
to be much more common in ruminants than in dogs and cats. Maybe one of the
vets on the list has more experience with sheep than I can chime in.

 

Karen Askounis

Three Fates Farm

Crete, IL

 

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