From:
pjdutche@email.unc.edu
Date: 2003-04-01 19:46:40 UTC
Subject: RE: Bulging eye, what to ask the vet?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <16709321.1049226400394.JavaMail.root@scandium>
Author wrote:
<< Thanks for the ideas... now, the eternal optimist in me must ask, is there anything *besides* glaucoma known to cause bluging eyes in ferrets? >>
Well, this won't make you happy, BUT, I have unfortunately seen pictures of ferrets with various sorts of neoplasia behind the eye socket with a bulging eye. Let's hope that's not it! Here is a post from the archives from Dr. Williams where he replies to someone with a ferret initally presenting with a bulging eye (but that ferret quickly grew other hard masses around the head and face...)
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=SG1824
Fingers crossed for something simple, easy, and curable. I wonder if some kind of dental abscess could cause an infection and swelling that would cause the eye on that side to bulge...
-Pam S.