From:
Ulrike Stanley
Date: 2002-01-04 10:32:00 UTC
Subject: Vicky treatment
Hello everybody
I wanted to thank everybody again who wrote to me and wished Vicky all the
best and told me about the stomach ulcers. My vet was hesitant to treat
Vicky for ulcers but they'd sent a slide off with a blood smear which showed
immature red blood cells (I think) and my vet said it means the body is
working hard to replace the blood cells. She concluded that the blood loss
must have been internal and agreed that it did sound like ulcers. I went to
the vets with a protocol for treatment, amoxicillin, clarithromycin and
Biaxin. The vets had the amoxicillin, then my vet and I went to the
pharmacy to buy the clarithromycin but nobody had the Biaxin so I ordered it
today, it'll be here tomorrow morning. My vet had prescibed tablets and I
would have given one twentieth of a tablet per dose but the pharmacist saw
that there is a suspension so we ordered that... In the meantime I bought a
bottle of Pepto-Bismol. I did my maths and came to the conclusion that
Vicky needs 0.1ml per dose??? That is such a small amount, I wondered how
ferrets can possibly object to the taste of such a minute amount? I read
"Essentials of ferrets" and the dose for Pepto was 0.25mg/kg. Vicky weighs
675g (she is skin and bones...), I did the dose for 700g and the result was
pretty much 0.1ml... Gave it to Vicky and she didn't realise what I'd
done... She did shake her head a tiny bit but nowhere near as bad as the
reactions I got when I gave Flagyl to the ferrets! I hope that'll make her
tummy feel better. How often can I give that? 3 times a day?
BTW, my vets couldn't believe that Vicky was still alive yesterday and my
vet couldn't believe her eyes when she saw Vicky run yesterday! The day
before yesterday she was limp, when the vets tried to do the blood
transfusion, Vicky just laid there on her back and they put the needle into
her neck over 10 times before they got the vein and Vicky didn't move at
all! Then a day later she runs around. The emergency vet who saw her 3
days ago thought she'd be dead now... Not only is Vicky very anaemic but
also very, very thin.
Thanks again for everybody's help and for caring about Vicky.
Best wishes from
Ulrike
and Jack, Bella, Mason, Baby, Dana, Fox, Reno, Rose, Jasmine, Hobo, Gremlin,
Bobby and Willow
Missing Angel, Hope, Igor, Barney, Tom, Spike and Jilly
West Wales Ferret Welfare
E-mail: ferretlove@n...
http://www.ferretlove.co.uk
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