ABSTRACT
Mastitis is considered an illness that causes great losses in milk production, reducing the quantity and quality of milk and dairy products. The options for treatments in cows with clinical mastitis are the usage of antimicrobials in all the animals, the treatment of none of them with antimicrobials, just some of them, or with homeopathic medicines. Animals that respond to no medical treatments have a predisposition to recover from clinical mastitis, even in the presence of the infectious agent. This began with an experimental intramammary inoculation with Staphylococcus aureus and after the beginning of the clinical signs there was established a treatment only by milking-out the cows. The animals where evaluated by clinical scores, somatic cell counts (SCC), California Mastitis Test (CMT) and microbiological parameters. As some animals did not respond to this treatment, they where treated with homeopathic medicines or antibiotics, afterward the results were compared with the milking-out treatment. For the animals that were possible to be treated by milking-out, the clinic and CMT scores were statistically smaller (p < 0.05) when compared with those treated with antibiotices and homeopathic medicines and for these two treatments there was no difference in the efficiency, exhibiting clinical cure at the 9th daypost-inoculation.
KEY WORDS
Mastitis; milk-out; homeopathy;
Staphylococcus aureus