From:
"Sue Liszewski"
Date: 2004-03-20 20:14:19 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: Pooping bright red blood and not much else
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <BAY15-F20eckpFEkmhg00070266@hotmail.com>
This will often occur with any irritation to the colon and we see it with an
intestinal virus. If it is red it is usually (not always) not as serious.
We often see a hemorragic gastroenteritis and it looks like they are going
to die by what we see but they act fine and usu with antibiotics a brief
fast things heal up pretty fast. Best of luck to you all.
Dr. Sue
>From: Caitlyn Martin <caitlynmaire@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: Pooping bright red blood and not much else
>Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 06:57:45 -0800 (PST)
>
>Hi, everyone,
>
> > could it possibly be an ulcer? My vet has told me
> > that someof the ferrets she's had on pred develop
> > ulcers.
>
>She has no symptoms of an ulcer, and that would
>result, from what I understand, in black tarry stool,
>not frank blood and nothing else.
>
>The update: Lady Ayeka had a third incident at the
>emergency clinic that night, but since then she's been
>fine. A fecal smear after that was normal. Her blood
>glucose was normal. (She does have insulinoma ).
>There has been no recurrence since that night.
>
>Ayeka received fluids that night and was put on
>Clavamox. She's been fine but we still don't know why
>this happened. All we're doing at this point is
>watching and waiting.
>
>The amazing thing through all of this is that Lady
>Ayeka remained her usual, wired self. She wanted to
>play and didn't understand anything was wrong. Go
>figure.
>
>Anyway, if anything changes or if we figure out
>anything I'll post again.
>
>All the best,
>Caity and the super seven
>
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