From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2004-11-29 20:13:28 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: Shelby---heart trouble--supplements
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <7247153.1101759208053.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Certainly contact your vet for a discussion.
Individuals do vary in responses to drugs. We had one have a fatal reaction to an antibiotic which we've never heard of another ferret being allergic to. It happens. Not often for many of those responses, but still individual variations do happen.
Cardiac disease can change, too. Among the 4 with terminal cardiac problems here over time we had two with rhythm problems.
One had ventricular bigemini and sometimes trigemini. She was expected to die almost immediately. Ultrasound and EKG/ECG to best design her treatment protocol and digoxin with Enacard and Co 10Q (and later Lasix and banana) got her something like a year or a year and a half -- very long time of good life. Cardiomyopathy can be read about in the compilation in the Files section at
http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth
and then the more recent posts in
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org .
The other had Complete A/V Node Block caused by insulinoma. Her meds and those of others with this serious condition can be read about in the compilation in the Files section at
http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth
and then the more recent posts can be found in
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org.
Proper testing (ultrasound and EKG/ECG) allowed for the right meds to be used to get her 9 months, a figure that astonishes many vets given the level of her problem.
The testing really IS important because it allows the best medical program to be devised for the individual, and so is not being shy about trying some strong meds if they needed according to the test results, but always treating them with respect.