Treatment of Pieris Ingestion in Goats with Intravenous Lipid Emulsion |
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| Authors: | Karyn Bischoff Mary C. Smith Samuel Stump |
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| Affiliation: | .Animal Health Diagnostic Center, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Cornell University, PO Box 5786, Ithaca, NY 14852 USA ;.Ambulatory and Production Medicine, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA ;.California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA |
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| Abstract: | Seven goats and one ram presented with clinical signs including regurgitation, obtundation, anorexia, apparent pain, and bloat. The animals had escaped from their barn, and it was discovered that they had ingested leaves of Pieris japonica, Japanese pieris, a grayanotoxin-containing plant. Animals were treated with antibiotics, calcium borogluconate, B vitamins, and activated charcoal within the first 24-h postexposure, which was followed by the recovery of the ram and two goats and the death of two goats. Approximately 36 h after Japanese pieris ingestion, one of the three remaining anorectic goats was dosed with intravenous lipid emulsion (ILE). This goat recovered within a few hours. The remaining two goats were given ILE the next day and appeared to recover, but one died a week later of aspiration pneumonia. |
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| Keywords: | Grayanotoxin Goats Intravenous lipid emulsion Pieris |
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