Re: [AlpacaTalk] RE: Supplies to keep on hand
In a message dated 1/16/2009 11:06:44 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
houckj@aol.com writes:
Well Yikes! All I can say is that is enough right there to make me
never give vaccines again! Which vaccine can cause such a severe
reaction?
Anything can cause and anaphylactic reaction. We have all heard of or known
people who react to bee stings or penicillin, I personally swelled up like a
balloon from a prescription NSAID. There are some vaccines which are "hot"
or tend to cause more reactions(lepto in dogs comes to mind). CD/T, in my
experience, does not tend to be a hot vaccine. Now the simple truth is anyone
can react to any vaccine at any time, so even if your animals have not had a
reaction the last 50 times you vaccinated them, they may (or may not) react
to number 51. On the reverse if an animal reacts to a vaccine it will always
react and should not be revaccinated. I do keep epinephrine on hand and I
take it out with me when I vaccinate, (interestingly the most likely time to
react is at the second vaccination, the animal was sensitized by the 1st
vaccine and has an allergic response to the second..but I digress) now the dose my
vet recommended for epi is 1mg/kg which translates to 1ml/100kg (or
1ml/220lbs of alpaca) so what I do is on my little note pad that I take with me that
lists who is getting what, I have the animals weight, the amount of whatever
they are getting and next to their name I have their calculated epi dose,
written, incase I need it. That way if I do every have an issue (which I
haven't knock wood) I am not fidgeting trying to calculate a dose. That is a
little trick I learned working in emergency and critical care, we always had the
resuscitation drugs listed with doses on everyone's chart just in case.
As far at tetanus goes, I believe that simply has to do with our animals
having a much higher frequency of exposure than we do (tetanus loves to live in
poo). Also immune systems differ from species to species as does natural
resistance to disease (dogs rarely get tetanus even when exposed).
Allison Aday
Asgard Alpacas
Gibsonville, NC
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