From:
Pam Sessoms
Date: 2001-11-24 11:46:00 UTC
Subject: Re: [Ferret-Health-list] Still need ideas for aiding
movement of food from stomach to intestine
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 Ruesterx1@h... wrote:
>
> Anyone know of a drug or digestive aid that would help in the process
> of moving the food along.
You may want to ask your vet about trying Reglan (generic name
metoclopramide). I've used it on two fuzzies, one of which had a
tremendously enlarged stomach that didn't seem to move food through
properly. We think it helped him. It promotes upper GI motility...
wonder if it may help in this case. The other ferret of mine that was on
this was nauseous for no reason we could tell, and it helped with that -
it can help in cases where an animal is "centrally" nauseous (in the
brain).
Here is a web page about this drug:
http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body_reglan.html
I'm not a vet. Maybe someone else has other ideas...
Best wishes, and keep the list posted,
-Pam S.