From:
angela@ort.org
Date: 2005-03-31 20:18:26 UTC
Subject: RE: Menigitis or degenerative problem?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <5618906.1112300306652.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
I wrote back to my vet and these are his latest thoughts. I'd be interested if anyone else has any comments.
>>I am suspicious that Bailey has some sort of CNS problem rather than a metabolic one, the symptoms you describe would point to that. You will remember the episode of pyrexia and tender neck area he had in July 2003, at the time I was suspicious of a meningitis. Inflammatory conditions of the CNS can be due to bacterial, viral, or parasitic infections, or non-infectious causes. He appeared to respond to Baytril and Rimadyl, and it is interesting that antibiotics alone have again helped even if not cured him of symptoms. It might be a long shot, but it would be interesting to perhaps investigate parasitic causes, in particular Neospora and Toxoplasma. I would be tempted to prescribe a course of potentiated sulphonamide (some effect against the parasites I have mentioned, and if little response to try some steroid.