From:
ladydbfh@sbcglobal.net
Date: 2005-10-12 03:55:34 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] could it be the water??
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
On Saturday, I had a ferret that I thought was healthy, never showed
any health problems, by Sunday evening, he went completely down hill
and had to be put down because he just plain couldn't breathe. I
noticed in his mouth, he had some sores.
Last night, another thought to be healthy ferret started having
insulinomic seizures. After giving him some Glutose, feeding him and
giving him pred, his glucose only rose to 56. He continued to seize.
I took him to the after hours vet, they xrayed him and found that
his kidney was extremely enlarged, a possible adrenal tumor and
definately insulinoma. They gave him an iv drip, he seemed fine.
When I got him home, I fed him again and put him to bed around 3 am.
By 630 am, he was seizing again. Oh, I forgot to mention that he had
some mouth sores also. I fed him, pred him and gave him glutose, but
he still was seizing. I called the vet and let them know that I was
bringing him in to releive his suffering, got in my car, started it
up then he popped his head up like nothing was wrong. I shut off the
car and decided maybe I just needed to feed him some more. We went
into the house, I fed him via dropper, quite a bit actually and he
was willingly taking it. I put him in his cage, he got into his
litter box and tried to go potty and then just collapsed. I took him
in and had the vet help him to the bridge. (with confirmation that
it was time.) Now, Blade is starting to go hg again. He is on 1 ml
pred twice a day and gets a special diet of homemade chicken gravy.
His glucose was 46, I gave him some nutrical and an extra 05 ml of
pred (under docs advice) and we could only get his up to 56. He also
has sores in his mouth. I checked some of the other ferrets and am
finding that they also have these sores.
The only thing I can think of is that one of the volunteers took the
water bottles home and put city water in them instead of filling
them at the store. Is this logical?? Of course we are going to make
a trip to the vet as soon as they can see the affected fuzzies. I
just dont understand why this is going on.
Any advice??
Lora Blaisdell
Michigan Ferret Rescue inc.
www.miferretrescue.org
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