From:
Ulrike Stanley
Date: 2002-01-27 07:28:00 UTC
Subject: Fluid in lungs after anaesthetic/ spay/ dental???
Hi there
Last Wednesday I had Willow and Tara spayed and my friend's ferret Tricky
had a dental. When I fetched the girls, Tricky was already coughing. At
home, Tara and Willow started and Willow sounded really bad at night, very
congested. I phoned the vets Thursday but they didn't sound worried at all
and said I should just keep an eye on them. Saturday I took Tricky and
Willow in to the vets, both were rattling badly, Tricky's right side of the
lungs sounded like it was full of fluid (the left side sounded clearer), and
the vet didn't know what to say, she said there was definitely fluid in the
chest and she gave both girls a shot of lasix and sent me home with
antibiotics (Synulox). My vet hasn't got a clue how that happened. I
thought Tara was okay and had got rid of her fluid in the chest but last
night she started coughing again so I gave her a quarter of Jack's frusemide
and I put her on antibiotics as well.
Anybody got any idea why this happened? It's *never* happened before...
All three girls had pipes down their throats, I don't know why, my husband
thinks that the pipes go to the trachea with the gas. Tricky was very
overweight and Willow was on the podgy side but Tara is very slim. There's
not one thing those girls have in common except that they all had the pipes
down their throat. But how does that cause fluid build-up in the lungs?
I'm really worried here...
Ulrike
and Jack, Bella, Mason, Baby, Dana, Fox, Reno, Rose, Jasmine, Hobo, Gremlin,
Bobby, Willow and Tara
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