From:
"Sue Liszewski"
Date: 2003-10-27 06:22:08 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Pneumonia Home Care Suggestions
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <Law12-F71zWTwn7FdIv00000007@hotmail.com>
Rule out foreign body in throat (either trachea or esophagus, rule out
neoplasia (cancer), If it is truly pneumonia DO NOT SUPRESS the cough at
all, you want him to cough that stuff up, you can use nebulization with
either just saline ore your vet can make up a solution to use. This methid
gets moisture down into the lungs and if useing a medication solution can
get medication tight into the lungs, Rule out cardiac diseases, etc. YOU
MUST FIND OUT IT YOU ARE TREATING IT CORRECTLY! Did he have a fever? Good
Luck!!!!!!!!!!
Sue Liszewski DVM
>From: dwall@harbormortgage.com
>Reply-To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>Subject: [ferrethealth] Pneumonia Home Care Suggestions
>Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 00:22:48 +0000 (GMT)
>
>I have a male ferret about 3.5 years old who starting coughing 4 days ago.
>I brought him to the vet and he has been prescribed 0.5 ml Baytril 2x
>daily. He has been on it since yesterday and his breathing is progressively
>worsend. I have a warm mist vaporizer a safe distance from his cage, have
>removed any fuzzy type items and replaced his bedding with other clean cozy
>non-fuzzy bedding. I have washed everything in his cage and I'm using hand
>shredded newspaper in his litter box. I'm making myself crazy trying to do
>anything and everything possible to make him more comfortable. Out of all
>my other ferrets he is the one who has never ever beeen sick.
>He has been on ferret soup which up until today he was taking readily. We
>have taken two steamy bathroom sessions with me comforting him today. I
>searched the archives and went out and got the orange triamic (for cold and
>allergy not the chest congestion) and gave him one drop with ferretone.
>I'm not sure if I am more concerned when I hear the awful coughing or
>whether I'm more concerned when he's not coughing. Now he absolutely
>refuses the Baytril and I want to be so careful not to have him aspirate it
>that I didn't get much food or medicine in him tonight.
> What else should I be asking for besides the obvious chest x-ray, when I
>bring him back to the vet tomorrow morning (monday!)Assuming he just has a
>bad case of pneumonia, what suggestions does anyone have?
>
>Thank you!
>Diane Wall
>Ferret Mom of 6 (but no experience with pneuomia!)
>
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