From:
fuzztek@aol.com
Date: 2003-09-07 08:21:50 UTC
Subject: RE: Mystery Disease/Beeker/WHO SURVIVED??
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <4688379.1062922910790.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Author wrote:
> I am looking for the sole SURVIVOR of this mystery disease (suddenly spiking fever, hind end weakness, very high white blood cell count) which does not respond to traditional treatment/antibiotics,etc, whom several other ferret owners have posted about. Victims so far (I believe) may be Clara, Yoda, Duster, Chiclet...
> If anyone KNOWS WHO THIS FERRET IS PLEASE WRITE BACK immediately so my vet can contact the vet...perhaps there is a "magic bullet" antiobiotic..It is believed this is a "hot bug..."
> (Not to alarm anyone--it does NOT appear to be necessarily contagious!!)
I have Clara and she is very much alive. She has been sick since the end of July. She still can't get up on her hind end but isn't spiking fevers anymore.She is eating A/D with Deliver 2.0,Nutrical and ground up kibble.She will eat about 40 to 60cc if I feed her with a spoon. She is still on Clavamox,Baytril
and Pred. with Vit B EOD.She gets 20 to 40 cc LRS daily.Last week I added Pet-Tinic.I have been washing her hind end every time she poops and she never tries to dry herself except today. She started cleaning herself for the first time in weeks,I am thrilled but she is still not out of the woods.
Yvonne