Sentences with phrase «prevent eclampsia»

Steps to prevent eclampsia in the bitch include feeding a high - quality, nutritionally balanced, and appropriate diet during pregnancy and lactation, providing food and water ad lib during lactation, and supplemental feeding of the puppies with milk replacer early in lactation and with solid food after 3 - 4 wk of age.

In order to prevent eclampsia, misguided dog breeders may try to increase the calcium in the dam's diet during pregnancy.

It has more calcium than standard dog foods making it a good choice for developing puppy bones and giving nursing moms extra calcium to help prevent Eclampsia (Milk Fever).

The vet may recommend calcium supplements towards the end of the pregnancy which will help the lactation and prevent eclampsia, which is a condition that causes fainting and seizures in calcium deficient dogs.

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Unmanaged preeclampsia can prevent a developing fetus from getting enough blood and oxygen, damage a mother's liver and kidneys, and, in rare cases, progress to eclampsia, a much more serious condition involving seizures.

As illogical as it may sound, supplementing calcium can actually cause rather than prevent a serious, life - threatening condition called eclampsia (milk fever) that is a result of low calcium levels.