Message Number: SG15502 | New FHL Archives Search
From: sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-09-26 01:09:03 UTC
Subject: RE: ferret "coughing" alott and breathing funny
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <143720.1127696943954.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

Those are symptoms which can accompany some life threatening things from cardiomyopathy to pneumonia to heartworms to influenza to...

Be sure to have a chest x-ray done to look at the lungs and the heart along with a prompt vet exam.

The only way to treat is to know what is wrong. Look up past posts on coughing in

http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org

Hopefully, it will not be anything serious, but coughing and trouble breathing are potentially too serious to not get prompt attention, and if the cause is one of the serious ones you want to be able to treat appropriately in a timely fashion.