Message Number: YG9418 | New FHL Archives Search
From: kathie weber
Date: 2001-12-15 16:59:00 UTC
Subject: Re: [Ferret-Health-list] Re: Teeth Grinding???

again i ask, if Barneys nauseated, what can i give him
to make him more comfortable. Kathie
--- macdoodle99 <macdoodle99@y...> wrote:
> I have been told that teeth grinding is a
> nonspecific sign of pain.
>
> In my experience it has happened in the following
> circumstances:
>
> It can occur with gastric ulcers. (Should also have
> black stools)
>
> My vet says it can occur due to nausea in a
> hypoglycemic ferret with
> insulinoma.
>
> Finally, in my ferret in whom the above were ruled
> out, my vet and I
> decided her teeth grinding was due to pain from
> widespread tumors in
> her abdomen (found during surgery).
>
> Kristy
>
>
>


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