From:
"Sue Liszewski"
Date: 2003-12-15 06:29:05 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] ferret with heart block dies
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <Law12-F68HZncJfKHmj0003cb8b@hotmail.com>
How was the dextrose being given sub Q, because at normal amounts it causes
skin damage and sloughing?
>From: tansy <tansyhl@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>Subject: [ferrethealth] ferret with heart block dies
>Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:23:40 -0800 (PST)
>
>My beloved Phil, Mr. Congeniality, passed over the
>bridge last Tuesday. He was at least 7 1/2, and had
>developed severe heart block. He had been on Digoxin,
>Enacard and Lasix for about 6 months for his heart
>problems, and then suddenly stopped eating and became
>very nauseous. When I brought him to the vet she
>discovered the heart block.
>
>My vet put him on Propantholene (compounded into a
>transdermal gel) which did significantly increase his
>heart rate (from about 30 to 90 after 5 days), but I
>think his poor heart was just too damaged, and he just
>had too many other things wrong. The worst was some
>kind of pyloric problem, where he seemed to be
>regurigating stomach acid (he looked like he had burns
>in the back of his mouth at the opening to the
>esophegus). It was very painful for him to swallow
>anything, and he was extemely nauseous, and did not
>want to eat or drink anything. He also must have had
>insulinoma, because despite getting sub q fluids with
>dextrose, he kept going into seizures because of his
>sugar levels. We tried everything for his poor stomach
>without much success(pepcid, Maalox, carafate,
>PeptoBismal, ulcer protocol), and the last day the
>ONLY thing I could coax into him were Fruit Loops.
>The only positive thing of this whole terrible
>experience is that he passed away peacefully in his sleep.
>
>_
>
>
>
>
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