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milk fever: a standalone construct

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milk fever1 CONSTRUCTMilk feverGOFF · 2008

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Veterinary medicine

A fresh dairy cow collapses from a crash in blood calcium

In veterinary medicine milk fever, or parturient paresis, is a metabolic disorder of dairy cows around calving in which the sudden demand of lactation outstrips calcium supply, dropping blood calcium until the cow weakens, goes down, and may die; despite the name there is no fever. Goff's 2008 review of the monitoring, prevention, and treatment of milk fever and subclinical hypocalcaemia sets out the dietary cation-anion strategies used to prevent it. The referent is periparturient hypocalcaemia and the paresis it causes, confirmed by blood calcium and reversed by calcium therapy.[1]

Unit
The fall in blood calcium around calving and the paresis it produces
Recovery means
Reversed by intravenous or oral calcium; prevented by managing the pre-calving diet's cation-anion balance
Measured by
Confirmed by serum calcium concentration and clinical signs of recumbency around parturition

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References

  1. Goff, J. P. (2008). The monitoring, prevention, and treatment of milk fever and subclinical hypocalcemia in dairy cows. The Veterinary Journal, 176(1), 50–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tvjl.2007.12.020

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