Message Number: YG11750 | New FHL Archives Search
From: miamiferret
Date: 2002-03-08 06:53:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Intersusception

Interesting again! :-) I didn't know drugs alone could treat this
condition. I thought it always required surgery to correct.

mike

--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "Shirley Hewett" <smhewett@b...>
wrote:

> >Interesting. I didn't know that happens to ferrets.
>
> We had a member's ferret suffer Malathion poisoning which caused
intersusception. "Iak" was treated with Atropine, Valium and fluids
and recovered 100%. Besides "Iak", and now "Douk", I had never heard
of another case of a "bowel telescoping into itself".