NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -Instances of poisoning have involved mainly cattle and some horses. Signs are caused by faulty clotting of blood and loss of blood from ruptured blood vessels. The amount of time between eating toxic sweet clover and appearance of signs varies greatly.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sweet clover poisoning is a problem of varying frequen-cy and intensity in livestock wherever sweet clover grows. The toxic compound produced in sweet clover prevents normal blood clotting resulting in hemorrhages and associated symptoms.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sweet clover poisoning is caused by dicumarol, a fungal metabolite produced from substrates in sweet clover, and is a common livestock problem in the Northern Plains and Canada.

Detailed explanation-4: -The clover plants themselves are non-toxic and it is the fungus that contains the toxin slaframine that causes the undesirable symptoms in horses.