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Consumer demand for dairy products was up last year. Sending positive messages to consumers about U.S. milk production is key to maintaining this demand, says Linda Tikofsky, DVM, Boehringer Ingelheim. She stresses that being more thoughtful about antibiotic use is also necessary in preserving it as an important tool for the long term.
That involves understanding the disease process, principles of antibiotic use and the length of treatment, as well as making sure we’re matching the drug to the bug.”
Source: Feedstuffs, May 27, 2021. Link. In the case of severe clinical mastitis, cows need to be treated immediately. “But with mild or moderate clinical mastitis, where there is abnormal milk or maybe swelling of the quarter, we can step back and consider the cow’s future in the herd, do a culture so we understand what’s causing the mastitis and then make a decision about which treatment is necessary . . . “ shared Tikofsky.
INSIGHTS: Subclinical mastitis is often undetected at dry-off. Last week we shared information about Advanced Animal Diagnostics’ point of care expansion <Link>. AAD’s QScout® MLD (milk leukocyte differential) test accurately detects subclinical mastitis in individual quarters in just minutes per cow reducing wait time and potential treatment expense.