From:
williamsdvm@comcast.net
Date: 2002-10-20 02:21:20 UTC
Subject: RE: Polyp or worse??...
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <24157473.1035080480014.JavaMail.root@scandium>
Author wrote:
> Hi
> My ferret may have a polyp in his ear, he goes for surgery on Monday morning, I cant really find anything about polyps at all on the net apart from "small beign growth on a mucous membrane" and that it sometimes has a small tail.
> Whatever it was in his ear has since come out, plus a lot of blood (we took him straight to the vets who said he was fine but that there was still something in his ear) when we got back from the vets I found whatever it was in his ear on the floor and it looks (and feels- touched with a glove on!!) like a lump of gristle and it has a tail. Does this sound like a polyp
Dear Charlottes: Middle ear polyps are common n cats, but not in ferrets - this may just have been a small skin tumor, which can occur in the ears as well as anywhere else in the body. Proably best to take it to the vet to be sent off to find out what it really is.
There is no information that supports a connection between the very rare ear polyp in the ferret with recurrent ear infections.
With kindest regards,
Bruce Williams, dVM