Donkey with internal colic / by Ass. Jihad Abou Touq

Place: Harbanafseh ( villages of Hama )

Date: April 2006

Owner: Abdul Hadi Shahoud

Animal: donkey / ( / aged 9 years

Case : internal colic

It is the case of colic. in Harbanafseh about 40 km. from Hama, Mr. Abdul Hadi, the owner, was waiting the mobile clinic to ask SPANA to help his donkey called Rosa , meaning ( rose ) in English. The owner was using Rosa in transporting the family and their products and for transporting the milk in the morning and evening. She ate much amount of green grass and her owner gave her more and more because he thought that , it is good for her to eat . so, when she went to the grassland she couldn't eat and began suffer spasm and then she became unable to stop and fell down. The owner was sad for her and for himself because he need the assistance of Rosa . when SPANA arrived ,Rosa was still sitting down on the floor and rolling up and down. So, the team tried to stand her with assistance of her owner and gave her dose of painkiller flunine. Also she was given the laxative solution of magnesium sulfate and proper amount of olive oil .the treatment continued for two days by giving her mixture of useful grass.

Cost of treatment:

1. flunine = £ 0.65
2. sulfate magnesium = £ 0.60