Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – Preparations characterized by special physical form – Specially adapted for ruminant animal
Patent
1994-02-01
1997-02-11
Bawa, Raj
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Preparations characterized by special physical form
Specially adapted for ruminant animal
424439, 424484, 514944, A61K 900
Patent
active
056018363
ABSTRACT:
The method of the present invention is directed to a nutritional supplement for ruminant animals at or about the time of freshening. The nutritional supplement comprises, in unit dosage form, prophylactically effective amounts of calcium propionate, or mixture of calcium propionate and calcium oxide, and a water soluble magnesium salt, as active ingredients in a pharmaceutically acceptable gel carrier that imparts flowability to the nutritional supplement. The present invention is also directed to a method of preventing or inhibiting a triad of diseases--hypocalcemia, ketosis and tetany--that commonly occur in ruminant animals during freshening. The method of the present invention comprises administering to a ruminant animal during its time of freshening, the above described nutritional supplement in a unit dose form.
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Reinhardt, T. A., et al. (1988). Vet. Clin. N. Am. vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 331-350.
World Review of Animal Production, vol. XXI, No. 3, 1985, pp. 59-62.
World Review of Animal Production, vol. XXI No. 3, 1985, pp. 53-57.
Bawa Raj
Great Lakes Biochemical Company, Inc.
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