From:
oheapame@isu.edu
Date: 2001-12-03 13:01:00 UTC
Subject: [Ferret-Health-list] Re: Hind-end stiffness/loss of control
control
one of my little girls did this when she got sick, and it was
weakness. as she got a little better, it became apparent that it was
less that she lacked proprioceptive sensation than she was just too
weak and sick to correct it or even try.
pam ohearn
----- Original Message -----
From: sukiecrandall@t...
> If it's unilateral, does she have anything like cardiomyopathy
> that might cause her to throw clots? Have seen this sort of
> damage remain even after such clots dissolved.
>
> If not unilateral, and it's general leg weakness which justshows
> more in a certain position (having trouble imagining the
> description) then ferrets get rear end waekness with just about
> anything that strongly affects their health. It's one of those
> general symptoms like tiredness.
>
>
> --- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "Jen & Andre" <jen.andre@i...> wrote:
> > Newton has a withdrawal reflex when I pinch her hind toes, but
> no proprioceptive sensation to correct her toes when I stand her
> on the dorsal side of her foot. She's got this rigid/clumsy gait
> in her hind end and falls over a lot (she has front end control).
> It got me thinking as to what would cause this... With an upper
> motor neural problem you would see this in all four feet wouldn't
> you? So that would lead me to think that it's somewhere in the
> thoracic or lumbar vertebrae... with lymphoma could you see
> pressure on the spinal cord causing this sort of thing? you'd have
> to treat it with a cortocosteroid to reduce the pressure I believe
> and if she's on .8 ml of pred twice a day could the dose go higher?
> >
> > Just wondering...
> > Jen