Message Number: SG13968 | New FHL Archives Search
From: mandi@weidmannremodeling.com
Date: 2005-05-16 18:42:53 UTC
Subject: RE: ferret enigma - Please help anyone?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <7609697.1116268973425.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

Author wrote:
> Has Megaesophagus been considered?
I was reading some info on the internet about Megaesophagus, so I did menti=
on it to my vet. She doesn't seem to think that it is the cause. From what =
I read it seems that the ferret will vomit up anything he swallows "before"=
it reaches the stomach?? My vet said that some of what he has been vomitin=
g up has been partially digested, so she doesn't think that this is what hi=
s problem is, although I don't think she is ruling anything out at this poi=
nt. One thing I didn=92t mention before are the gurgleing sounds coming fro=
m his stomach. I didn't notice this happening until we went to the vets off=
ice Saturday morning. That's the other thing that made me think of Megaesop=
hagus.

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