Re: [AlpacaTalk] Alpaca glucose monitoring

 

Both can be true. Not getting enough nutrition will obviously cause low blood sugar. Sepsis can certainly eat up all the protein and sugar in the blood and cause acidosis. 

I had a cria who crashed on day 2. They didn't find any actual infection in culture or slides, but it took 2 plasma tranfusions, 2-3 weeks of Naxcel, and tube feeding for almost a week to turn her around. I can't remember all the things that were wrong, but they couldn't even find a cause for her to crash. 

Heather

On Jul 28, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Rebecca Wells wrote:

I'm changing the subject as this has nothing to do with Coccidiia.

I'm not Laurel, but I'll pipe in anyway. I'm not a vet, but I've always
heard that alpacas are "borderline diabetics", which I assume to mean
that their metabolism does not handle sugars and carbohydrates well.

The cria I mentioned earlier, my first one, crashed about 18 hours after
birth. He was born about 12 days before the expected date, but didn't
show any obvious signs of dismaturity other than not being much
interested in nursing. We milked the dam and tubed him several times,
but as the hours passed it was clear that he was headed in the wrong
direction. When he was admitted to the vet hospital, one of the things
they mentioned they found along with the sepsis was that he was
hypoglycemic (i.e. he had low blood sugar). Obviously, if he wasn't
nursing well on his own, that would tend to explain why he might have
the low blood sugar. Or is it the other way around, the sepsis
(infection) was causing the low blood sugar?

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Rebecca Wells
rebecca@alpacadero.com
http://alpacadero.com

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