Message Number: SG7704 | New FHL Archives SearchFrom: sukie crandall
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 15:13:56 -0500
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Subject: Re: rectal prolapse
Message-id: <7E8E0CFD-5685-11D8-AC8C-000A95CD182C@optonline.net>
>I just adopted a 12 week old female who was recovering from a minor
rectal prolapse. She was being treated with >Panalog topically 2 times
a day. Sunday night she prolapsed again pretty badly, and I rushed her
to my vet Monday >morning. He gave her an IM injection of
corticosteroids (dexamethadone I believe) and gentamicin and
>betamexathone topically twice a day.
You will find some prolapse info on the home page
http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth
where a ferret with a rectal prolapse commands the featured photo and
caption
and there is yet more in the archives at
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org
If she keeps having bad prolapses then purse string
surgery (which is easy and only requires some
stitches to the rectum) usually does the trick.
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