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From: jackie_issa
Date: 2002-04-30 14:21:00 UTC
Subject: IBD??? please help!

I have 2 ferrets that are now about 8 months old and have been having
problems with their stool since they were 2 months. I have gone to 2
different vets and the problem still is not gone. I just read the
article in the Ferret magazine about IBD and I am wondering if that
is what they have. Their symptoms are stools that are loose,
sometimes green slime, and very grainy (birdseed like) We have tried
medicine to get rid of worms... they don't have worms. They have
been on flagyl forever, we tried antibiotics, and now they are also
using chloramphenicol tablets. Is there any suggestions to what this
is so I can tell the vet?

[For a start go to:
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/ECE/ECE.html

As you know, those symptoms mean that there is rapid transit time and malabsorption, but since you have two rather than one, a person would be more inclined to think in terms of an infectious process like ECE, coccidea, etc., or bad food. Kits often have ECE mildly, but just in case...]