From:
sukiec@optonline.com
Date: 2003-04-22 15:34:57 UTC
Subject: RE: blocked nose
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <26491074.1051025697539.JavaMail.root@scandium>
Author wrote:
> I'd get a vet appointment, and if the coughing is recent I'd be sure to request a chest x-ray.
Further info: a bad cough, a strange cough, the sudden on-set of a cough, etc. warrant vet care and chest x-ray. (I don't mean an occassional dust in nose or gagging on food cough.)
We've had a ferret with such bad pneumonia and pleurosy that her chest was mostly opaque when x-rayed (also did an emergency ultrasound the next day) but the day that we brought her in on an emergency basis she had just that same day begun a tiny on and off cough and the vet could not hear anything unusual when listening to her chest. Usually, with coughs a person considers that soon there may be medicating for cardiomyopathy added to life, but sometimes it is infection.
(In going on 21 years with ferrets we have had only one ferret with asthma, and she was one with multiple bad deformities, too.)