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From: sukieferret
Date: 2002-06-24 21:55:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Opinions or ideas - runny stools problem

New cage mate but not stressed out. Intermittent dark stools that didn't (?)
have a fecal occult test run so don't know if color was from digested blood or
not. Loose stools stop during antibiotic treatments and resume again not long
afterward.

Some thoughts: possibly caught something from cagemate (ECE?, coccidia,
etc.)

The problem (or an infection secondary to it) are somewhat responsive to
antiobiotics which makes a person wonder if the problem might clear up with
a careful combination of meds done for a long enough run (such as Carafate,
Amoxi, and Biaxin for a few weeks as is used for helicobacter), also makes a
person wonder it might boil down to that stewpot category of IBD since that
often winds up being responisve short term to antibiotics, but often does better
with Pred or Imuran, or a combo, even with antibiotics.

Were any fecal tests run?

Were pre-surpical blood tests run, and if so, did anything unsual appear?

While vet was in were any intestinal and stomach tissue samples taken for
pathology?

What was the result of the pathology on the adrenal?

I can't recall how long you said it had been since surgery, but seem to recall
not long (maybe a week or two?) so everything is still somewhat irritated
anyway from being moved around and may need more time to settle.