From:
"Sue Liszewski"
Date: 2004-08-20 17:16:51 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] Need help Please
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <BAY15-F19QrttDRdNOU00032caf@hotmail.com>
If she can't passs the blockage everything else backs up, you then get gas
food etc in the stomach and rest of the system. The intestinal tract slows
down. It is rare that we need to do surgery to get something out of the
colon but we sometimes do. Something more aggressive needs to be tried even
it is to gas her down and if it is low enough in the colon try and manually
remove it by going in thru the rectum (this of course is for your vet to do)
if it is too high then I would go in surgically so that you can get a
quicker resolution. Good Luck and don't waste any time this can get worse
instead of better.
Dr. Sue
>From: Ferretmomie@aol.com
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>Subject: [ferrethealth] Need help Please
>Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 22:17:58 EDT
>
>I have posted several times about Sidney. I am just so totally lost on what
>is going on now. As I have already posted, we know its a blockage and its
>in
>the colon. She has passed some of it. She was very dehydrated so as of
>Tuesday
>(8-17-04) I have been giving her sub-Q fluids bid.
>Today I noticed her stomach is bloated and she does not feel good at all.
>Of
>course she has never felt well anyway. Her stomach is sensitive to be being
>rubbed. She still has not passed the blockage. I can feel the blockage in
>her
>colon on papable exam. She and I and the vet have been fighting so hard for
>her.
>I just dont know what to do.
>Does anyone know why her stomach is swollen now? I have slowed the fluids
>down to once a day. She is drinking water and the glucerna well , through a
>dropper. She will not go on her own to get a drink.
>I really need some help or advice on what I should do. This has been going
>on
>for 2 months now. The only good thing I have seen from her is her eyes are
>brighter looking and her face does not look so hollow.
>julie
>
>
>
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