From:
dr_bruce_williams
Date: 2002-03-11 19:17:00 UTC
Subject: Re: question about botched descenting...
--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "Jen & Andre" <jen.andre@i...> wrote:
> I would like to know what might be expected in the long term for a
ferret who appears to have had a botched descenting done. My vet
wants to hold off any treatment to see whether it will abscess again.
I picture an enclosed pocket of gland tissue with nowhere for the
secretion to go. Unless the body is able to reabsorb the secretion,
how could this NOT abscess over and over?
Jen - you are right - there is nowhere for it to go, but downward and
eventually out. However, without a draining tract to follow, going
in without any clinical signs is a fairly low-percentage option.
The key here is that when it abscesses again - and it will - to go in
and make sure you get out the remnants. The more times you go in,
each time that you go in, the less chance that you will find that
little pice of secretory tissue. That first return visit, you can
find it, though.
With kindest regards,
Bruce Williams, dVM