From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-06-21 00:27:14 UTC
Subject: RE: update
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <6624911.1119313635002.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
There are reasons to not treat on your own. Here are two:
1. You could destroy the chances of success from the pathology
2.. The organism may not be sensitive to what you give but beneficial bacteria may be so it might worsen conditions
3. If it is something like coccidia the antibiotics won't touch it. That needs Albon,
If you have done it be sure to let your vet know. Maybe the risks of the pathology failing to give the needed results could be decreased by sending a larger than normal specimen to the pathologist
What about calling your vet tonight for a call-back and hopefully emergency help and advice?
When the mutant coccidia occurred years ago more ferrets died than needed to because there was not a smart approach taken to getting a diagnosis.
BTW, are these raw fed ferrets? I ask because some of the things that can be gotten that way, although rare, can present with blood flux.