From:
Ferretwise
Date: 2001-10-29 10:03:00 UTC
Subject: Re: [Ferret-Health-list] persistent diarrhea
Hello Diana-
I believe I queried earlier why they are not on metronidiazole or
flagyll for treatment? Has the vet been queried? This was the
course of action we took for our ferrets with clostridium??? They
are recovered fully. When you say they ran a stool sample-- what
were they testing looking for? Our ferrets had neg samples at a
vets office BUT when sent out to the lab they found the problem.
Ot sounds like your ferret Snoopy who is having lack of control
needs an exploratory for biopsy. ANy vets on the list care to
comment?
Alicia, a shelter Mom
Ferret Wise Shelter
www.ferretwise.org
At 12:06 PM 10/29/01 -0900, 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