Post by Joann on Feb 25, 2009 14:26:25 GMT -5
DD Sally has been cleaning out an attic and came across a Countryside mag from May/June '97. She noticed a couple of home treatments, as follows. Anybody care to comment on these?
Donna McD from WV successfully treated a severe udder and teat injury using Dermaplast. This is a spray-on product. First she sluiced out the wound with warm water with a little bleach, then patted it dry. Then she sprayed the two wounded teats with Dermaplast, which contains aloe vera and lanolin plus a numbing agent. She was then able to milk the two uninjured teats, by which time the numbing agent enabled her to milk out the two damaged teats. She then inserted teat dilators which she left in between milkings. I was not sure why she needed to do this. She continued this treatment and wrote that by two weeks she had switched to just squirting vitamin E directly into the wounds. By six weeks Buttercup, a Guernsey, was completely healed. She was milking TAD.
The second account was from Roy O, WI. He bought a beautiful Guernsey as a nurse cow cheap at auction because she had obvious mastitis. On the advice of an old timer, he treated the mastitis by infusing the infected quarter with liquid germacidal Tide laundry soap. He did this by using a teat dilator with center insert and a 20cc syringe without the needle. Then he replaced the plug in the dilator. The next day he infused the Tide but after a few minutes removed the plug in the insert allowing the Tide to drain out. He milked only the three good quarters and allowed the mastitic quarter to dry off. She was soon producing 50 pounds/day from her 3 good quarters. Daisy freshend some months later with a healthy calf, milking all four quarters.
And here is a tentative result from my ongoing saga of home remdies for mastitis in Jasmine. She has has a rather minor case of mastitis in her right rear quarter. I have pursued a succession of treatments including lard plus cayenne applied externally and adding vitamin C to her feed. So far I have not used antibiotics. Each time I let up on the treatments there would soon be a few flecks on the filter or some slow straining.
A week ago I quit all other interventions and began appliying grapefruit seed oil (1 oz in 8 oz of veg oil) fairly liberally externally to the quarter. Since doing this there have been no flecks and, significantly, total recovery of the flavor of the milk from that quarter. So we shall see if this state of affairs continues. I have not stopped applying the grapefruit seed oil and plan to keep it up at least until I run out. Jasmine is on OAD.
Joann