THE CHALLENGE IS TO PRODUCE IN A DIFFERENT WAY FROM HOW IT HAS BEEN DONE UP TO NOW
Continuing with the summary of the information session held at the Cooperative on Water Quality in the farms, disinfection and main biosafety measures, it would be very important for the farmer to be able to guarantee some key aspects of the hygiene of his farms, fundamental basis to have fewer disease problems and to be able to reduce the use of antibiotics.
In this regard, we must begin to apply another new restriction of the system of antibiotic use, which consists in the fact that antibiotics have been classified into different categories according to their usefulness for human medicine.. So for example Colistin, an antibiotic used in veterinary medicine very much especially to kill E. Coli in piglets and other young animals is a jewel reserved for doctors because it is the only antibiotic that cures certain pneumonias of people affected by bacteria super resistant to all antibiotics.
There are some antibiotics that fall into this category of "reserved", that is, we will only be able to use them after having tried the "normal" ones.. Only in the event that the "normals" have failed, and we have bacterial isolation results, antibiograms showing that only the “reserved” antibiotic is effective, only then can we use them.
What are these "reserved" medications?: because some are as popular as Amoxicillin, la Enrofloxacina, Marbofloxacina, Third and fourth generation cephalosporins,
Apramycin, Gentamicin etc.
Therefore when prescribing antibiotics, veterinarians will have to change the modus operandi of the last 30 years. Cannot take preventive medications, more diagnostics need to be done, and prescribe what is strictly necessary, when necessary.
Meanwhile, farmers have to change their mentality of the last 30 years and start to really put the following strategies:
– Biosecurity. Set of measures to prevent diseases from entering the farm.
– Preventive measures. Hygiene, Cleaning, Disinsectization, Effective disinfection.
– Preventive vaccination programs.
– Management programs, reproductive control, organization of the farm that allows to have animal flows that can be controlled.
The cooperative's livestock partners have a HUGE CHALLENGE in the coming months and years : Produce meat, milk, eggs in a different way than we did until now. Antibiotics cannot continue to be the protagonists of our program to fight against germs. We all have to reinvent ourselves. The veterinarians of the Cooperative, of the ADSG, have a fundamental role in this process of accompaniment to the farmer. Society is crying out for meat or milk with fewer antibiotics, and you have to be up to the task.
