Message Number: SG13757 | New FHL Archives SearchFrom: sukiec@optonline.net
Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 01:17:53 +0100 (BST)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Subject: RE: Blood out of anal and anxiety
Message-ID: <5329197.1115338673271.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Is this red blood or is it digested blood (feces black or sometimes very dark green)?
If it is red your vet will look from problems affecting the lower GI tract: the colon, the anus, etc. Has there been pus or a lot of mucus? Is there a fever? Has the ferret had a problem with severe anemia, or with a severe allergic reaction?
Tarry feces indicates bleeding higher up in the digestive tract, such as happens with an ulcer.
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