From:
Russell Prater
Date: 2002-01-27 12:04:00 UTC
Subject: Re: [Ferret-Health-list] Fluid in lungs after anaesthetic/
spay/ dental???
Ulrike Stanley wrote:
> 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?
Pneumonia would do it.