Recently, the National Innovation Foundation (NIF) has developed a poly-herbal medicine called Mastirak Gel to treat Mastitis in Dairy Cattle.
Context
Recently, the National Innovation Foundation (NIF) has developed a poly-herbal medicine called Mastirak Gel to treat Mastitis in Dairy Cattle.
What is Mastitis?
- Mastitis, or inflammation of the breast, is the most common and expensive disease of dairy cows in the world.
- Cause: Although stress and physical damage may cause inflammation, infection with invading bacteria or other microorganisms (fungi, yeast and possibly bacteria) is a major cause of mastitis.
- Several types of bacteria cause very different types of mastitis.
- Infections begin when microorganisms penetrate the teat canal and multiply in the mammary gland.
- Injecting antibiotics almost always cures clinical disease but may not eliminate bacterial infections.
How does it impact?
- It reduces milk production, increases production costs and makes milk less useful for the use and production of liquids.
- It can affect farm production due to low milk production, thus affecting income-generating activities.
Prevention
- New infections are prevented by focusing on management efforts to reduce the presence of pathogens at the end of the breast.
- One of the most important management practices to prevent the transmission of new infections is the use of an effective antibiotic as a breast dip after milking.
How this Mastirak Gel would help?
- It can improve uddar (the milk-producing part).
- Reduce inflammation that damages the breast.
- It also reduces the use of antibiotics and helps control the disease in a less expensive way.
- Treatment of infected animals with antibiotics poses a public health hazard.
National Innovation Foundation (NIF)
- NIF is an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), which renovates indigenous technologies based on farmer’s wisdom.
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