34 Urination by Way of the Navel 



TREATMENT 



Iodine is the best drug to paint the navel and joints with, but all the 

 treatment of every veterinarian is not as effective as to keep the colt away 

 from infected barns and lots. There is a bacterin on the market for navel 

 ill but to date it is only an experiment. However, on infected premises 

 the bacterin have given good results when injected before the disease 

 establishes itself. That is, healthy colts can be kept from taking the di- 

 sease by immuning them with the bacterin. 



DISCHARGE OF URINE BY WAY OF THE 



NAVEL OR 



^Persistent Urachus"] 



Discharge of urine through the navel opening more freqcently hap- 

 pens male than female colts. It is caused by the non-closure of the 

 channel through which water passes during pregnancy. 



Water runs or continually drips out of the navel cord and if al- 

 lowed to continue for any length of time irritates the surrounding parts. 



TREATMENT 



This is compartively simple if a stump of the navel cord remains. 

 Tie a previously disinfected soft cord around the stump and the openng 

 will close. If none of the cord remains prepare a cobblers sewing 

 thread by doubling and waxing it with bees-wax or rosin; place it in the 

 needle; begin at the back of the navel and run a stitch from the back of 

 the navel to the front and tie it, completely closing the opening and in- 

 volving no more skin than is necessary. Then if urination does not go 

 through the proper channel it may be the channel is closed in the uretha. 

 In such a case it is necessary to open the channel with a human catheter. 

 The sooner the above operation is performed in a case of navel urination 

 the more successful will be the result. 



