Treatment of Clinical Mastitis

Decision making in clinical mastitis management requires determining the severity level of each case. Treatment decisions should be based on culture results, and such results can be obtained within 1 day. Making treatment decisions based on culture results allows the practitioner the most justified and judicious use of animal medications. Nearly 50% of all clinical mastitis cases are treated inappropriately or unnecessarily. Although there are many treatments for clinical mastitis, good scientific studies demonstrating the efficacy of most treatments are lacking.