Message Number: SG9773 | New FHL Archives Search
From: "Sue Liszewski"
Date: 2004-08-01 20:27:52 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] Heartworms, Lyme, and Distemper
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <BAY15-F162JSG7GKoR100039bef@hotmail.com>

Ideally any animal should be tested prior to treatment with prevantatives
but years agao there was no good way to test for it so we routinely just
started treatment without testing. Due to the work done in Florida we now
know the Idexx snap test is very effective. It is generally safe either
way, but in dogs if they are positive and you are killing off microfilariae
in large numbers it could cause emboli and sometimes death but this is
geneally with high worm burdens and ferrets and cats generally have low worm
burdens. I think it is worth testing initially and if you haven't test now
so that you know. Like I said the test tests for adults. Hope this helps
clear things up a bit.

Dr. Sue

>From: katharine@nettally.com
>Reply-To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] Heartworms, Lyme, and Distemper
>Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 20:07:35 +0100 (BST)
>
>Dr. Sue:
>Are you saying that no ferret should be put on heartworm preventive until
>they are tested? I thought I had read, in the past (don't know where),
>that it wasn't necessary to test ferrets prior to beginning preventive
>treatment. All of mine have been on monthly prevention, year-round, for
>several years. Have I just been lucky?
>
>Katharine
>
>Author wrote:
>So if the little once was exposed recently, tested negative for adults and
>started on prevention then he should be fine since you are killing them off
>before they develop.
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