From:
sukieferret
Date: 2002-01-04 19:34:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Ferret with enlarged heart
When cardiomyopathy is treated ferrets can have a great
improvement in quality of life and often alos in quantity of life.
Thre is testing that will be needed, but there are some
marvelous meds out there.
Two write-ups can be found at
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc ,
and i think that if you use the search feature at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ferret-Health-list
(and keep hitting next any time it comes up empty on a partial
seach) you should find more recent things that can also help.
Personally, I can't speak highly enough about the value of tests
like ultrasounds and meds like Digoxin, Enacard, and others.
One important thing to know for later as the disease progresses:
there is now no longer an upper limit suggested for ferrets for
Lasix. It is dependent on what the individual can tolerate. At
least three folks here have had ferrets on doses way, way byond
the past upper limit with very good results. (That includes us.)
--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "Sirron" <sirron@e...> wrote:
> I have a female spayed 6 year old ferret that has an enlarged
heart, which I found out on January 3, 2002. She weighs 1
pound 3 ounces. All of her blood work came back normal. Her
stool was negative. Her x-rays showed an enlarged heart. She
was put on Lasix, 2ml 2 times a day. She is given 6ml of AD 3
times a day to put weight on her. She also eats and drinks on
her own. Is there anything more I can do for her besides TLC,
which she got a lot of before I found out about her enlarged
heart.
>
> Sirron@e...