Improving the health of the farm animals and combating ecotoxicants with the help of modern immunomodulating agents
Ecotoxicants are environmentally hazardous substances capable of long-term conservation, transmission and accumulation. In concentrations exceeding the natural level, ecotoxicants have a toxic effect on the health of productive animals. The most dangerous ecotoxicants are mycotoxins, heavy metals, radionuclides, hormones and growth promoters, etc. To avoid the dangers associated with the impact of ecotoxicants on the organism, it is advisable to use effective and safe immunomodulating drugs with detoxifying, antioxidant and other useful properties. One of the most effective means of counteracting the effects of ecotoxicants on the organism proved to be the drug Gamavit (GM), which is widely used both in animal husbandry and poultry. GM has been successfully used in the treatment of blood parasitic and worm infestations; intoxication caused by antiprotozoal drugs, radionuclides, salts of heavy metals, rodenticides, etc. GM is shown to correct anemia of different origin, and to restore erythropoiesis in congenital iron deficiency and other pathologies. The use of GM for therapy of T-2 mycotoxicosis of various animals (sheep, pigs) reduces the pathogenic effect of the toxin and results in the normalization of nonspecific resistance, hematological parameters and the average daily live weight gain. The last is probably due to the proven ability of the GM to stimulate the production of growth hormone in the farm animals.