Clinical Signs:
- Most and important findings in dehydration is drying and wrinkling of skin, giving body and face a shrunken appearance.
- Eyes recedes into socket and skin subsides slowly after being picked up into fold
- In calves, severe dehydration is associated with mental depression
- Rapid loss of body weight and muscular weakness.
- Inappetance or anorexia
Clinical Pathology:
- Increase in packed cell volume
- Increased total serum protein concentration
- Hyponatremia, hypokalemia, hypchloremia depending on cause.