From:
Ferretwise
Date: 2001-10-26 09:11:00 UTC
Subject: Re: [Ferret-Health-list] persistent diarrhea
Hello Diana,
We had a ferret in the shelter last year diagnosed with Clostridium.
As I recall the treatment was with flagyll or metronidiazole.
Perhaps one of the good vets can enlighten us>
Alicia
Ferret Wise Shelter
www.ferretwise.org
At 08:40 AM 10/26/01 -0800, you wrote:
I have 2 older male ferrets. They have had chronic diarrhea for a
long time now. We had stool samples run several months ago and
they both came back positive for clostridium. We treated them with
amoxy but 3 weeks later thay still had diarrhea. Took another
stool sample and one was positive and one negative. We changed to
Batril and did that for about 4 weeks with no change. We ran
another stool sample for both of them yesterday and it was
negative. Ringo is 8 years old and insulinomic. He is up to 1 ml
of pred 2X a day. He had been on pred for over a year now. Snoopy
has no health issuesthat we are aware of. I had to seperate these
2 old gentlemen because it was impossible to keep them clean with
them both in the same cage. Is there something else that I can
try? Alll the vets at the clinic that I use are stumped. Sometimes
Ringo does not even make it out of his sleeping box when he has to
go potty.
Diana and The Ferret Farm