Message Number: SG14304 | New FHL Archives Search
From: mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: 2005-06-09 11:04:56 UTC
Subject: RE: snuffling, grunting, gagging--megaesophagus?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <209570.1118315096625.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

I have not heard of any relation between a recent surgery and megaesophagus. Where'd you read that?

I can't say what this might be, but the esophagus is very visible on an x-ray. You might want to have that done, perhaps using barium to get a really good look and to see if it's moving it down in a normal manner.

mike

Author wrote:
> Kind of grunting in her throat and snuffling like a pig, and also gagging like maybe she's starting to aspirate and then hawking it back up. I know that it sounds something like MegaE, but in most of the posts on this list about megaE, the ferret was also grinding the teeth and had had recent surgery