From:
"Sue Liszewski"
Date: 2004-08-23 03:34:04 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] Medication interference?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <BAY15-F40PDOqrDSkyW00042679@hotmail.com>
How long has she been on the Digoxin? This has a low therapeutic/toxic
ratio so you may wish to have a level checked. Any drug that is newer is
worth investigating as a contributory cause. Get her checked ASAP.
Dr. Sue
>From: TeddiBarey@aol.com
>Reply-To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>Subject: [ferrethealth] Medication interference?
>Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:06:30 EDT
>
>My female 8 year old ferret having insulimona and now cardiomyopathy. Have
>been on Prednilisone 2mg/ml#30cc~.25cc once a day; Lasix 20mg/ml#4cc~.15
>every
>12 hours; Enalapril 2mg/ml#12.5cc~.15cc once a day and Digoxin Elixer
>Pediatric~.20cc every 12 hours, being fed chicken baby food with ground
>totally ferret
>every 4 hours religiously. It has been once month since we first started
>all
>these meds. As of last Tuesday's recheck she was good; not so much
>accumulated fluid so did not need to be tapped; liver values good; heart
>rate good;
>appetite wonderful and more energetic. Still having very runny stools and
>a
>bloody rectum. Vet put her on Sucralfate 100mg/ml 1GMtablets~.20cc every
>eight
>hours. Have been giving her the latter since Tuesday evening and she is
>not
>eating like she was, very lethargic now and her breathing is somewhat
>labored and
>too me ( I am not a vet) but her heart rate seems faster, and still having
>runny stools. Could this medication have altered the progress from the
>others?
>She was doing so well and now....
>thank you
>Leeanne and "Fenway"
>
>
>
>
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