Message Number: SG12103 | New FHL Archives Search
From: mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: 2005-01-02 18:47:05 UTC
Subject: RE: megaesophagus
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <1979031.1104691625707.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

I know that ferrets have had feeding tubes in place for a short time. You can see one here...

http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ben.htm

I don't know how this would be in the long term as this one was only in place during Ben's healing process. It wasn't for megaesophagus.

mike

Author wrote:
> Hi All,
> We have heard that in cases of megaesophagus in dogs and cats that they are being treated with a permanent feeding tube. Is that possible or has it been tried in ferrets?