METHODS OF TREATING DIARRHEA IN PRE-WEANED, NEONATAL AND YOUNG NON-HUMAN ANIMALS

摘要

Provided are methods of treating neonatal and young non-human animals, particularly pre-weaned animals, suffering from diarrhea, and/or symptoms thereof, by administering to an animal in need thereof a proanthocyanidin polymer composition isolated from a Croton spp. or a Calophyllum spp. in the absence of an enteric coating. In particular, the pre-weaned, neonatal and young animals include foals, which frequently suffer from diarrhea of various etiologies, and the administered proanthocyanidin polymer composition is isolated from Croton lechleri and is in a non-enteric form. The non-enteric composition can be in aqueous soluble form and orally administered to the affected neonatal and young animals.