From:
sukiecrandall@telocity.com
Date: 2001-11-13 11:51:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Helicobacter or Blockage
is she defecating? Is she eating and drinking? If the answer to
any of those is "No." then she needs immediate surgery since a
complete blockage is rapidly fatal.
--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., not_into_cap@y... wrote:
> One of our new ferrets went to the vets because of dry heaves.
She
> isn't accepting any of the new ferrets no matter how we
introduce
> her. She either has Helicobacter or a small blockage. She is
on
> amoxy, flagg and pepto bismol for two days to see if this might
be a
> blockage instead. Bigs archives doesn't show this as
contagious, and
> the only test for Helicobacter is with a stomach test. Since the
> only signs are dry heaves and stress from being new, we
aren't sure
> what might be going on. Yes, a blockage can be life
threatening. We
> are providing a number of laxatives with some, but not all the
luck
> we had wished for. Any comments?
>
> not_into_cap