IS WHITE MUSCLE DISEASE RELATED TO CAPTURE MYOPATHY?
Muscle is a pretty simple organ. All it can do when it is sick is to die! So white muscle disease, which is seen in calves due to a lack of vitamin E and selenium deficiency has the same appearance as myopathy when you slice the muscle and look at it under a microscope. HOW IS CAPTURE MYOPATHY TREATED? The bad news is that if you have an animal with clinical signs, its prognosis is poor. In other words – it is not going to get better. In other words – treatment is not effective and continuing to let the animal suffer becomes a welfare issue. The muscle has died. It cannot regrow. This has an implication with the welfare of the animal then being treated, only to suffer horrible cramping, pain from failing kidneys, inability to breathe from congested lungs and then to die up to 1 month later. It also has an implication for release – if the muscles are destroyed – then how is it ever going to be 100% fit for release? Field treatment in the hands of many experienced veterinarians has not b
