From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-06-19 17:16:11 UTC
Subject: RE: Very sick, older ferret. Please help!
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <6531136.1119201371797.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Call the vet and ask them about possibly phoning your pharmacy for a prescription of Carafate in the liquid formulation. Pretty much any pharmacy carries it and it is usually also an easily accepted medication (though some ferrets mind it).
We had a little girl, Warp, who used to periodically projectile vomit blood. In fact she did it several times over. In her case it was not ulcers but a friable (but otherwise normal) small intestine from some unknown cause. The first time we thought that she had found stray drops from a bleach spill hours before but she did it several other times as well, requiring surgery for at least one of them. Despite that she lived to be well into her 8th year.
Ulcers, obviously, or eating something which should not have been ingested, are going to be more common.