Chloromed
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Chloromed 150 mg/g Oral Powder for Calves 1 kg
Chloromed 150 mg/g Oral Powder for Calves is a highly effective antibiotic treatment designed to combat bacterial infections in calves. The active ingredient, chlortetracycline hydrochloride, is a broad-spectrum antibiotic that targets a wide range of respiratory and digestive bacterial infections. This oral powder is ideal for treating conditions such as pneumonia, enteritis, and other bacterial infections that commonly affect calves during their early stages of development. With easy administration through feed or water, Chloromed 150 mg/g ensures rapid recovery and improved overall health in calves.
Key Features:
- Active Ingredient: Contains chlortetracycline hydrochloride (150 mg/g), a powerful broad-spectrum antibiotic that effectively targets a wide range of bacterial infections in calves.
- Broad-Spectrum Efficacy: Effective against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, providing comprehensive protection against respiratory and gastrointestinal infections, including pneumonia and enteritis.
- Oral Powder Formulation: Easily mixed into feed or water, allowing for convenient administration to multiple calves with minimal handling.
- Fast-Acting Treatment: Rapidly absorbed, providing quick relief from infection symptoms and promoting faster recovery for healthier calves.
- 1 kg Pack: Ideal for larger farms, the 1 kg pack offers cost-effective treatment for multiple animals, ensuring widespread protection during disease outbreaks.
Benefits:
- Prevents and Treats Infections: Chloromed 150 mg/g Oral Powder helps treat and control common bacterial infections in calves, reducing illness and improving survival rates, particularly in vulnerable young calves.
- Promotes Healthy Growth: By treating bacterial infections promptly, calves can recover quickly and resume normal growth, leading to better weight gain and development during critical early stages.
- Improves Respiratory Health: Effective against respiratory infections such as pneumonia, Chloromed supports better lung function and reduces the risk of long-term damage caused by bacterial infection.
- Easy Administration: The powder form can be easily mixed into feed or water, making it convenient to treat large groups of calves with minimal effort, reducing stress and improving overall herd health.
- Cost-Effective: The 1 kg pack size provides ample treatment for farms of all sizes, helping to reduce veterinary costs by preventing the spread of bacterial infections.
Chloromed 150 mg/g Oral Powder for Calves is a reliable and efficient solution for managing bacterial infections in young calves. With its broad-spectrum action and easy administration, it helps ensure faster recovery and better health outcomes, promoting optimal growth and productivity on the farm. Always use under veterinary guidance and follow dosing instructions to ensure the safety and efficacy of the treatment.
Dosage & Administration
For oral administration.
- The recommended therapeutic dose is 20 mg of chlortetracycline per kg bodyweight (equivalent to 20 grams of Chloromed 150 mg/g Oral Powder per 150 kg bodyweight) per day administered for seven days. This should be given in a divided daily dose i.e. 10mg morning and 10mg evening.
- The product should be administered to small quantities of feed for immediate consumption by individual animals. Larger groups should be treated with medicated feeding stuff.
- The product should be mixed thoroughly into a part of the daily feed ration and should be administered prior to the feeding. It should be ensured that the calculated dose is completely taken up by the animals.
- If animals don’t recover within 3 days after oral medication, diagnosis should be reconsidered and treatment should be changed, if necessary.
- To ensure the correct dosage and to avoid possible under-dosing, the bodyweight should be determined as accurately as possible.
Withdrawals
Calves:
Meat and offal: 10 days.
Milk: The product is contraindicated for use in adult ruminants and dairy cows and should therefore not be used in animals producing milk for human consumption.
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