The article will talk about a fairly common disease of cows - papilomatosis or warts on the udder.
You will learn why the disease affects the mammary glands, how the first symptoms appear and what kind of therapy is needed to get rid of the problem.
Causes
Warts or papillomas are small, benign tumors of the largest size. Quite often found on the udder of young heifers - under the age of 2 years. Mature individuals may suffer from this malady during a period of deterioration of the immune system.
Papillomas can appear singly or in groups, to be different in size. The most dangerous are those that affect the nipples. In this case, they interfere with the normal milking process or make it impossible. 
The reason for the appearance of papillomas is the penetration of the papillomavirus through wounds and cracks on the udder. If an animal has a weakened immune system that cannot fight the virus, new growths are formed on the skin. They may look like small tubercles, and may protrude above the skin surface like fungal growths, hang down on the stem, or settle down on a broad base.
The virus can get on the skin from a sick animal, as well as as a result of improper care of the mammary glands or non-observance of sanitary and hygienic norms when keeping cattle. The papilloma virus can be introduced when the animal is labeled or with any medical manipulation if the instruments have been poorly disinfected. Quite often cases of papilomatosis occur when cows graze and drink water from an overgrown swamp. Infection also occurs during mating during infection of the genital organs of the male. The virus is transmitted by blood-sucking insects.
Did you know? On the udder of a cow, which is in the lactation stage, about 3.5 liters of blood flow in 1 minute. While the non-lactating cows, this figure is 4 times lower. For the formation of 1 liter of milk, it is necessary that 400-500 ml of blood pass through the mammary glands.
Why does HPV affect the udder zone?
The opinion that papillomas affect only the cow's udder is wrong. They can spread throughout the body, affecting any part of the body or head. However, it is on the udder, which is not covered with hair, warts are visible in the first place. In addition, they are quickly noticed during milking, since it is the mammary glands that are examined, massaged, touched by a person. Other parts of the body do not lend themselves to such manipulations, so the warts on them are rarely found. 
Warts on the udder of a cow: what to do, what to treat
Many breeders do not pay attention to warts, if they do not interfere with milking. Indeed, there are cases when they dry out and fall off by themselves with improved conditions and quality of feed. However, veterinarians claim that papilomatosis is a disease that must be treated regardless of which part of the disease it affects.
Papillomas do not impair the quality of milk and meat, but they cause discomfort to the whelp. They are characterized by rapid spread. Therefore, treatment should begin even when only one wart is found. Delay with therapy threatens that getting rid of papillomas will be delayed for a long time and will entail a lot of trouble for the owner of the animal.
Did you know? The domestication of a wild bull (in particular, a tour, zebu), which later became a domestic cow, occurred during the early Neolithic period, after the domestication of goats, pigs, and sheep. This process was first carried out by people living in the region of Altai-India-Western Asia.
In the treatment using traditional methods, using traditional methods, as well as practicing surgical intervention.
Traditional methods
The method of treatment of papillomas involves a set of measures:
- strengthening immunity by reviewing the diet and the introduction of vitamin supplements;
- vitamin injections;
- udder care;
- elimination of the virus from the skin with the help of ointments and other substances;
- destruction of the virus inside the body with drugs.
We advise you to learn how to properly formulate a diet for a milk cow.
B12 is injected intramuscularly from vitamins. It is necessary to make 4 injections with an interval of 1 day. Consumption - 5 ml per 1 cow. Also conduct a course of immunostimulants. 
Care of the udder implies that it is washed with warm water and dried with a soft towel three times a day. Outside the wart is smeared with nitric acid, liquid nitrogen, acetic acid, salicylic collodion, formalin, lapis, grease, celandine, antiviralin ointment, anti-odorite ointment, aluminum spray, dibayliva dyarochka. Lubrication produced after each milking for several weeks.
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To get rid of warts faster, you can give magnesia to a cow - twice a day for 30 g. The course of treatment is 10-15 days. Treat papillomas and intravenous injections of penicillin-novocaine. They are produced around the neoplasms. 
Another treatment is Novocainic blockade. A 1% solution of novocaine (80 ml) is injected into the jugular vein. Procedures are carried out 4 times with intervals between them in 1 day.
Surgical intervention
Surgical removal of warts occurs when a cow for this reason has a dramatic deterioration in the quality of life, as well as if the growths prevent milking.
Papillomas neatly cut off, cut sections are treated with aerosols with antibiotics in the composition.
Important! In order for the treatment to take place efficiently and quickly, it is necessary to conduct it in combination, using different methods simultaneously. A sick cow should be immediately separated from the main herd, and the room should be disinfected.
Folk remedies
Folk remedies include wart dressing. To cut off the neoplasm from the blood circulation, its base or leg is pulled tight by a hair from the tail of a cow or by a thread. After some time, without access of blood, papilloma dries up and disappears. This method is used for individual tumors, as well as if the warts have an oblong, circular shape with a base or leg.
Among livestock breeders, it is common to wash the mammary glands with broths
- Lunaria The procedure is carried out 5-6 times a day. The course of treatment is 10-15 days.
- Potatoes. Boil peeled skin with processes 15 minutes on low heat until it turns dark. Rubbing carried out three times a day.
Papillomas smear:
- Juice onions. Grate the bulbs on a grater. Squeeze juice from the cake. Lubricate the affected areas with juice several times a day.
- Juice sour apples. Squeeze the juice of winter varieties of apples. Lubricate sore spots daily.
- Juice horseradish. Grate the horseradish root and squeeze the juice out of it. Add salt in the ratio of 1 to 1. Stir until dissolved. Rub salty juice in tumors.
- Tear of the vine. Incise the vine grapes. Collect juice. Rub it into the neoplasm.
- Vegetable oil with wax. Fry the finely chopped onion in a pan with the 1st cup of vegetable oil. After it acquires a golden color, remove it. Oil mash on low heat for 5 minutes. Then add 25 g of wax into it and bring to a boil. The mixture is cooled and lubricated with warts for 12 days.
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Apply to warts:
- Garlic gruel. A few large slices finely grate. Combine with lard in a ratio of 1 to 1.
- Slices of raw potatoes.
All folk methods are used only after careful hygiene udder.
Preventive measures
The occurrence of papilomatosis udder can be avoided by observing some simple rules for keeping cows:
- Do not violate the sanitary and hygienic standards in the barn and recommended conditions for keeping animals. Prerequisite - clean litter. Otherwise, the udder when lying down the animal will get dirty.
- Regularly perform cleaning and disinfection of the barn.
- To establish high-quality food, allowing animals to receive the necessary vitamins and minerals.
- At the watering place to prevent the cow from entering the water with the immersion of the udder.
- If cracks or wounds on the udder occur, disinfect them immediately.
- To carry out regular veterinary and gynecological examinations of the population.
- Vaccinate cows.
Important! Despite the fact that the methods of preparing a vaccine against warts are available on the Internet, it is forbidden to prepare it yourself and enter the animal. This can lead to a deterioration in the state of the cattle. Vaccination should be assigned only to a specialist.
Thus, papillomas on the udder is a common disease in cows that requires mandatory treatment. It brings the animal significant discomfort, reduces its immunity and provokes the development of other diseases. If the disease is started, then it will have to be treated much longer and more troublesome. Therapy is carried out by changing the diet, establishing proper breast care, applying ointments, injecting vitamin and novocaine injections, magnesia, and using traditional methods. 
In severe cases and when milking is obstructed, surgical intervention is required. In order to prevent the development of papilomatosis, it is necessary to observe preventive measures, which include: regular udder hygiene, compliance with sanitary and hygienic standards in the barn and recommended living conditions, timely inspections of animals.
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