Message Number: SG3322 | New FHL Archives Search
From: Pam Sessoms
Date: 2003-02-19 18:17:00 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Possible blockage and barium study questions
To: sterling97 <sterling_97@email.msn.com>
cc: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.44+UNC.0302191312100.46626-100000@login7.isis.unc.edu>

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, sterling97 wrote:
> Can barium "highlight" or outline anything in the stomach that *isn't* a
> foreign object or a hairball? In other words, can something that belongs
> in the stomach be inflamed or enlarged and be "highlighted"?

I believe that at least some ulcers can show up with barium. Ulcerated
tissue will trap the barium and cause the barium to show up in that area.
Now, many (most?) ulcers in ferret stomaches are tiny, tiny pin-point
sized things, and I don't know that those little ones would show up.
Larger ones can, though.

Not a vet,

-Pam S.