From:
Ferret Wise Shelter
Date: 2004-10-23 05:11:45 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] bacitracin
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.2.20041023011000.024eca50@mail.usaexpress.net>
I have heard from several vets any steroidal will cause renal failure if
ingested...
You are thinking of genticin, gentimycin and YES nthgat is fatal in small
amounts it used to be recommended by Susan Brown for ECE.... until 21
ferrets died after being treated with it on her recommendation...
I knew the owner in upstate NY-- it devastated her......
!
At 10:46 PM 10/22/04, you wrote:
> > Bacitracin in not a good topical. If placed where it can be ingested by
> > this ferret or a companion it can severely damage the kidneys. I would
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>Alicia, you may be thinking of Neomycin.
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>In a past post Dr. Williams was trying to track down a report of a death
>but the conversation seems to either have disappeared or I just can't find it
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>http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=YG10397
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>from 2 years ago says in part:
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> >I am unfamiliar with bacitracin toxicity in the ferret.
> >Oral dosing of rats with bacitracin may lead to
> >life-threatening bacterial overgrowth in the intestine,
> >and it may cause contact dermatitis in humans, but I
> >have not previosuly seen any documented cases of
> >toxicosis in ferrets.
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> >Neomycin, which is used with bacitracin and
> >polymyxin in the ointment Neosporin, may cause
> >hearing damage or even renal disease if ingested
> >in large qualitites.
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>I don't have time to look at the vet texts right now, but this is what is
>in teh archives.
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