Normal lochia from a dairy cow
Keywords: lochia, postpartum, bovine, cow, involution, uterus
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Normal lochia from a dairy cow at 12 days postpartum; seen in its bedding. At this time, the sloughing process of the caruncles reaches the capillary beds, releasing red blood cells into the lumen. Therefore this discharge is normal and in the absence of fever, inappetence and other common pathology at calving (mastitis, traumatic reticulo-pericarditis etc) it requires no treatment.
Normal lochia from a dairy cow at 12 days postpartum; seen in its bedding. At this time, the sloughing process of the caruncles reaches the capillary beds, releasing red blood cells into the lumen. Therefore this discharge is normal and in the absence of fever, inappetence and other common pathology at calving (mastitis, traumatic reticulo-pericarditis etc) it requires no treatment.