From:
jcgibs02@hotmail.com
Date: 2003-10-08 15:18:05 UTC
Subject: Opinions on Ulcers?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <5972245.1065626285560.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Please respond
Our ferret, Miles, is a 4 year old ferret that has had a terrible time with=
his ulcer lately. He has been to a ferret specialist (vet A) and a cat, do=
g, horse local vet (vet B).
This is his 2nd ulcer attack in 2 years.
The first attack - the vet A prescribed amoxicillin with metronidazole and =
it cleared his diarrhea and ulcer symptoms. Vet A also wants to do a bowel =
exploratory surgery to make sure that it is helico bacteria causing the pro=
blem. I am not comfortable with this decision at all. I would rather medica=
te then fillet open a 1.5 lbs. ferret and hope for the best.
>From that point on he has had several diarrhea episodes that last no more t=
han a day.
In the past few weeks though, Miles has had tarry stools from a 2nd ulcer a=
ttack. We took him to our local vet (vet B) who placed Miles on Carafate an=
d Prilosec, which has healed the tarry stool but not the diarrhea. Miles ha=
s lost a significant amount of body mass but still eats so long as I finger=
feed him baby food and ensure. =
Yesterday, I ask the vet B if we could place Miles on Clarithromycin and he=
stated that the drugs side effects are upset stomach and diarrhea so we de=
cided not to take this course of action. I asked him what else we could try=
. He states, =93You might want to put Miles to sleep since this seems to be=
a chronic episode and he is not responding to the carafate and prilosec.=94=
I thought to myself BS!
So, I convinced the vet that I would like to see if he would refill the amo=
xicillin with metronidazole that vet A had prescribed in attack 1 since it =
seems to clear up the problem previously in the first attack. He did and no=
w I am left here asking you what to do next?
Any opinions?
I gave my vet the following research article abstracts.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=3DRetrieve&db=3DPubMed&li=
st uids=3D10791942&dopt=3DAbstract
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=3DRetrieve&db=3DPubMed&li=
st uids=3D8931416&dopt=3DAbstract
This event in our baby=92s life is giving me a ulcer. What can I take?
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