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Adverse reactions to vaccine?

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KY
I vaccinated my 1 day old twins yesterday and within less than 5 min. the little doe was completely out of it, limp like a rag. The only thing working was the nose and she would blink when I gently blew at her eyes. Heart rate/breathing extremely slow. She urinated several times while unconscious. She weighs 7 lb 7 oz and I had seen her nursing about 30 min. prior and when I picked her up she was eating dirt, had a little pebble still stuck to the fur on her rear. I gave her, CDT, BoSe subq and bovine e-colizer, jumpstart paste which she didn't all swallow before she passed out. Seemed like shock to me and vet thinks too, reaction to one of the substances.


With low dose of steroids, dextrose, Vit. B complex, tube feeding, heating pad, lactated ringers I got her through the night. She was still immobile around 3 a.m., but at 6 a.m. (about 12 hours after I vaccinated) she started moving and let a little bleat out. Since then she has been improving, still tube feeding, gave her 0.2 cc Draxxin this morning as preventative measure. She has not taken a bottle, so I keep tubing her and having her on heat pad.


 


Did anybody ever have anything like this happen??? I vaccinated and doctored all kinds of animals for years and have never had ANY react.


Or could there be another reason for this? If so what?


 


Should I give her more Draxxin, just in case??? Any thoughts would be appreciated. 
 
We keep a bottle of  ;16pxEpinephrine in the refrigerator at all times. It more than likely went into to  ;18pxanaphylactic shock from one of the shots you gave her. It is very rare but in the 14 years we have raised deer had two fawns that it happened to just like you described. We gave both a shot of Epinephrine and they came out of it as fast as they went into shock. It is really cheap under 10 dollars and usually good for years. We end up throwing a full bottle away most times but is worth its weight in gold when needed. WE also raise honeybees and is good to have around if someone would get stung and have a bad reaction. They can die very easily from shock but it sounds like shes on her way to recovering.
 
Thank you Wthollow. That's what I had wished to have on hand and I will get a bottle for next time around (didn't know of anybody who might have an Epi pen), so my next best thought was steroids and it did bring the heartrate and breathing up. She is alert, walking around, checking her play pen, urinated and passed bowel movement and fighting me, doesn't want to take the bottle now. She probably starts thinking tube feeding is the way to get food. LOL


I sure had never anything like this happen, but I'm really glad she didn't die right away.
 
Jada, thanks. I gave them .25 cc as instructed and last year's fawns and her brother are well. Prior to first fawns last year it took me lots of calling and running around to find out if we are selenium deficient here or not. Turned out my side of the county is low otherwise I would not even have gotten the stuff.


Thankfully she is fine enough now to fight the bottle. I'm still tubing her, force feeding, so to speak.
 
We aren't vaccinating until they are taking the bottle good this year and it's been a lot easier. Seemed like before they would be sore and that much harder to feed the next day. At 5-7 days this year they act like nothing happened. Using the EHD 9 way and One Shot Ultra 8 vaccines only.
 
Thank you so much everybody for your input. I have soooo much to learn!!!! Praise the Lord, my little girl has been going great!! Since Saturday evening she has been eagerly taking her bottle, putting 4-6 oz down each time. Exploring the house. I have left her play pen open and she's been checking things out and bonding.  I took her out in the yard this afternoon in another playpen set up next to my garden, so I actually got some veggies in the ground while she could be in clover etc.


 
 

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