Wooden tongue

(Chronic infectious disease of cattle)

**ch` by inflammation of soft tissue of the head
(tongue)
*the disease common occur in adult age
*feeding of coarse feeds predisposing factor
**clinical signs:
1- salivation , difficult mastication & appetite
2- swelling of tongue , hard , have round yellow
lesion(2-5 mm)
3- swelling of retropharyngeal & submandibular
L.N
**Treatment :

1- I/V injection of Sod.iodide 10% as:

1gm/12 kg / b. wt/ repeated after 10-14
days
2- intensive coarse of antibiotic for 5
successive days as:
I/M injection of Streptopencid
2 vial/12 hr