Mastitis...UGH!

[Sweetened]

Oh, and oregano oil can be injected right into the teet same as you would today tomorrow those kinds of things. Diluted of course. I have done this myself several times with excellent results with 60% oregano oil cut with olive.

 

[babsbag]

I will try the cabbage leaves and the cold compresses first. Cold is not hard to do at the barn, warm is a bit harder. I was thinking that hand warmers in a damp towel might be the ticket but cabbage leaves might work to. Can't wait until the new barn has hot water.

I have hot oils; cinnamon, cloves, wintergreen, cajuput, peppermint, and probably all of the rest. I was working on making my own sore muscle rub. I don't feel any cooling sensation in the balm I have left. I know when I used it before it would make my hands tingle so I think it is "dead". I have some of my muscle cream I made left, it is not hot enough for my sore muscles but maybe it will feel good on her udder.

 

[babsbag]

Poor girl's udder is just tight and hard and compresses don't seem to help much. I got next to nothing out of her. I will go to the store and get some cabbage. I don't have any oregano oil, probably the one oil I don't have, and probably can't find it locally. I will try the health food store though.

@Sweetened ...do I put the cabbage leaves on her warm? Do you think the oregano will help break up the congestion in her udder?

 

[Sweetened]

Yup. Warm,.

The oregano oil will treat infection, not congestion. Remember to make sure its diluted or you will need to cut it yourself.

 

[babsbag]

My doe is hanging in there and honestly I am surprised. There is nothing but blood red liquid coming out of her udder and I have a hunch that the antibiotics are not working. Hope that the lab gets results to me tomorrow.

I couldn't find oregano oil but than I remembered that a few years ago I had bought an herbal treatment from Fir Meadow called Udder Blast. So I massaged her udder with it and I infused her udder with it tonight instead of the Today. Hopefully it will do something different because I am having a hard time getting anything out. I will do the cabbage tomorrow. The cold compresses seems to have helped a little but I need to figure out how to keep the warm ones warm at the barn; I put them warm into an ice chest but that didn't stay warm enough. I forgot the hand warmers in town today so maybe tomorrow.

The doe is eating and drinking and doesn't seem ultra depressed but I know that she is in pain. I didn't do Banamine tonight, they can't be on it long term so I am giving her a break. Her doeling is not getting much to eat and she wouldn't nurse off of the other doe tonight but she sure did try and get milk from mom. Guess I am going to have to bottle train her to supplement.

 

[samssimonsays]

Hoping everything is going ok this morning.

 

[BlessedWithGoats]

I'm sorry Babs!! I hope she gets better soon!

 

[babsbag]

The goat is alive and miserable. I feel so sorry for her. I just can't get the infection mass to break up and come out. I have tried hot, cold...cold, hot. Natural oils, and traditional meds. I have done teat cannulas inserted much further than suggested hoping to break the dam and nothing. I am going back to the store for some hand warmers and some cold packs and I will cook the cabbage. Don't know what else to try.

Have not heard from the lab so I think I am going to switch the udder infusion from Today (cephapirin sodium) to Pirsue (Pirlimycin hydrochloride). I hate just throwing the medicine cabinet at her but my vet won't swap drugs until the culture is done which looks like Monday at this point. So I have some Pirsue so I am going to use it. (Just shoot me).

She's a fighter and she isn't used to being hand milked. This is not fun for either of us.

 

[Latestarter]

So sorry Babs You're doing everything you can for her and I really hope you can get her through this. I don't blame you for doing all you can considering the situation... You have to try.

 

[babsbag]

Thanks @Latestarter. I feel pretty useless out there right now and the hours I am spending with her is keeping me pretty busy; not that I'm not already. I have 18 kids to socialize so I can sell them and I am not spending any time with them. I need to hire them a playmate person.