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bracken fern poisoning [1 record]

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Record 1 1990-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Diseases
DEF

Livestock poisoning caused by eating bracken.

OBS

It [bracken] causes poisoning in several unique ways: (1) Ingestion by ruminants over a short period causes depression of bone marrow activity, leading to pancytopenia evidenced principally as ecchymotic haemorrhages in mucosae and septicaemia. Severe diarrhoea and dysentery are terminal events. Ingestion over a long period causes proliferative lesions in and bleeding from the urinary bladder mucosa. ... (2) Horses respond differently. A thiaminase in bracken causes a clinical syndrome of THIAMIN deficiency. Signs are muscle tremor, incoordination, frequent falling and bradycardia and cardiac irregularity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des animaux

Spanish

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