From:
lthompson@clarkdistribution.com
Date: 2004-05-13 17:38:47 UTC
Subject: RE: Harley botched descent plus ?long term infection?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <598449.1084469927216.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Kim,
My MF boy was terribly sick last year and had the same kind of poos, enlarged spleen, and due to the elarged spleen it pressed on his stomach and he got a hairball on top of it all. But what I was told is my boy got helicobacter infection from the stress of bringing in a new kit to the house.( He really hates this kit)Maybe your little boy is having the same problem with stress since he was sick for so long??? My boy was put on Metronidazole and Amoxi along with sulcrafate. It took quite a while but he has gotten much better. I tried to reintroduce him to the kit after several months of him being better and still hates him and the helicobacter infection came back -Stress related again. I know there's another regimen of meds for helicobacter that's supposed to work just as well in a shorter amt of time. I forget the name of the drug I think it's Biaxin and it's supposed to be easier to give the ferret than the metron.-My baby hated this stuff. Hope this could maybe help a little??
Lisa
Author wrote:
> Update on Harley, who had been on and off amoxi since last December, and had a swelling on his butt three times the previous year that responded to antibiotics.
> It was determined that he had swellings on both sides of his anus, samples were sent for cytology, results came back infection, necrotic tissue, apparent anal sac remnants. Harley is MF, two tattoos, was supposedly descented before we got him.
> Surgery revealed fully intact right anal sac, and left anal sac that had been fully intact, but had ruptured (thus the necrotic tissue). Both were removed, and all parts of left sac were sent for cytology. According to Vet, results were negative for neoplasm.
> But Harley still is not doing well unless he is kept on sucralfate and amoxi (sucralfate for ulcers that developed over the course of his long illness). On sucralfate alone he still doesn't want to eat, his stools are very mucuousy, he is very lethargic, and he seems feverish (warmer than normal to touch, and paw pads are pinker than usual). With the addition of amoxi, he eats better, stools become almost normal (some mucuous).
> Does anyone have any suggestions on what to look for next and what tests? The Vet is pretty sure she got all the tissue from the left anal sac, so we are thinking something else is wrong.
> Thanks for reading, and for any help
> Kim Breeden