From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-02-21 19:33:20 UTC
Subject: RE: Cecil - Bloody Urine - Even After Surgery (Clinical Results)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <5624853.1109014400363.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Were the stones themselves analyzed for type?
What are you feeding?
You don't want urine to be too alkaline like you are encountering, which can happen with too much plant material in the diet, and you don't want it too acidic, whcih can happen with too much protein (but very possibly only with a genetic trigger -- something which is part of a study of cystine stones in ferrets which treating vets need to know about so that the reasearch vets and treating vets can help each other*)
Sometimes a bacterial infection can be antibiotic resistant. If it hasn't been done, yet, consider running a culture to grow the bacterium, find out what type it is and what antibiotics knock it out.
*The new study on cystine stones (cystine uroliths) in ferrets is being coordinated by
Dr. Michelle Hawkins VMD DABVP (Avian) who your vets can reached at:
2108 Tupper Hall, University of CA, Davis, CA 95616
1-530-752-1363 (phone)
mghawkins@ucdavis.edu