Among the many products used to treat chicken adenomyogastritis, many frontline veterinarians blindly believe that prescriptions or products containing antipyretic analgesics are effective against chicken adenomyogastritis. Some farmers who do not understand the facts or the reasons also believe that chicken adenomyogastritis products that increase feed intake, or increase it quickly, are effective. In addition to these criteria for evaluating the efficacy of chicken adenomyogastritis products, there are many other efficacy criteria that mislead consumers. In fact, all of these are unprofessional and unscientific ways to evaluate medicines for preventing and treating adenomyogastritis.
Today, let’s talk with you about several key issues that lead to misleading assessments of the effectiveness of adenomyogastritis products.
1, using antipyretic and analgesic Western medicines to reduce fever will worsen gastric ulcers.
Antipyretic and analgesic Western medicines are all nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. They have antipyretic, analgesic, and anti-inflammatory effects, but share the same adverse effects: effects on the digestive system, especially the serious reaction known as “peptic ulcer.”
2, proventricular edema, and clear fluid on the surface: treating flocks of chickens with these signs with antiviral Chinese herbal medicine will aggravate the symptoms of proventriculitis and gizzard inflammation. Flocks of chickens in which proventriculitis has just developed often show proventricular edema and clear fluid on the surface. If antiviral Chinese herbal medicine is used at this point, this is why the condition may worsen.
First, the fluid on the surface of the proventriculus is not gastric acid. The normal pH values in a chicken’s digestive tract are: crop 4.51; proventriculus 4.8; gizzard 2.5～4.74; rectum 6.9. If it were gastric acid, the pH at this point would certainly be below 4.8. Test results are often above 5, indicating that this fluid is not gastric acid. It is therefore caused by cold in the stomach, as cold causes water to accumulate; from this, the condition can be identified as a cold pattern.
In traditional Chinese medicine, common viral diseases in chickens (Newcastle disease and influenza) are classified as warm-heat diseases. In terms of treatment with Chinese herbal medicine, warm-heat diseases must be treated with cold-natured medicines (use cold to treat heat). Therefore, using cold-natured antiviral medicines for a cold pattern is undoubtedly like adding insult to injury and will only worsen the condition.
3 It is incorrect to judge whether a treatment drug is good by whether feed intake increases after medication. Drugs for treating proventriculitis and gizzard inflammation generally suppress gastric acid secretion and control digestive fluid secretion. The purpose is to prevent excess gastric acid and digestive fluids from worsening ulcers and erosions (gastric acid and digestive fluids digest feed and are needed when the body is functioning normally; suppressing them affects feed digestion, while not suppressing them worsens gizzard ulcers and proventricular erosions!
So, when faced with two harms, choose the lesser one; it is unavoidable). Ulcers and erosions gradually heal under the effects of the drugs. If medication is used to increase feed intake when gastric acid and digestive fluids are not being secreted normally and the ulcers and erosions have not fully healed, it will undoubtedly make matters worse and will only cause the ulcer fissures to tear open again.
At the same time, gastric acid and digestive fluids are suppressed by the drugs, so the increased feed intake cannot be digested and further increases the digestive burden (the clinical phenomenon of “feed passage” is sufficient evidence of this). The increase in feed intake can only be temporary, and the time needed for complete treatment will be prolonged!
4 Using Western medicines (drugs for treating this disease) to prevent this disease is basically counterproductive! Western medicines used clinically to treat proventriculitis and gizzard inflammation all rely on drugs that suppress digestive fluid secretion. Using such drugs to prevent the disease before it occurs undoubtedly increases the digestive burden! More often, it promotes the development of the disease!
5, controlling mold with copper sulfate will worsen the condition. This is because copper sulfate releases copper ions in the body, and these ions will aggravate the ulcers. Copper sulfate has a strong irritant effect on the gastrointestinal tract and can also cause severe kidney damage and hemolysis.
6, increasing ventilation and rapidly lowering the temperature during treatment of this disease will make treatment more difficult. This is because this disease is a cold syndrome, and the body's ability to resist cold is already reduced. Increasing ventilation and lowering the temperature will only worsen the condition and hinder recovery. Therefore, during treatment, the temperature should be kept appropriately stable so that the chickens do not feel cold.