Message Number: SG17112 | New FHL Archives Search
From: sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2006-04-13 21:06:37 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] IBD
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com

I wrote to a few knowledgeable people asking if IBD truly clumps, or if it =
is just an unwarranted noticing on my part of households with multiple case=
s.

The following is to the FHL membership from Dr. Mark Burgess of SW Animal H=
ospital in Oregon who so far is the only one who could be reached to reply =
with his permission to share it.

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Hi Sukie (you can post this if you want).... good question... part of th=
e answer may be that IBD is very common, and households with one case are m=
ore likely to recognize cases in their other pets (or their vet may recogni=
ze it too).... gut problems are so common in adult ferrets that the odds =
actually favor more than one case occurring in multiple pet households. A=
link may also occur if infectious disease plays a role in development of I=
BD...such as did the ferrets in the house have ECE in the past, which may i=
ncite a chronic inflammatory response that fails to subside even when the v=
irus is gone. Helicobacter could in theory contribute to gastritis, but s=
eems to be a primary player in only a very small % of patients, so probably=
isn't a big factor in most households with multiple cases. Other possible=
players include cryptosporidia (we've had some cases where crypto-like str=
uctures are seen in the bowel biopsies). Dietary factors could play a role=
; what diet and/or treats are affecting the ferrets in a given household? =
High starch/carbohydrate intake may exacerbate gut problems; low starch fo=
rmulas sometimes seem to clinically improve some patients. Beyond that, the=
occasional startling similarities between house pets are not always clearl=
y explained... e.g. one house will have pets with remarkably similar patter=
ns of chemistry abnormalities... such as very high lipase, mild globulin el=
evations, and significant ALT elevations-- and in another house the pets h=
ave very high globulin, mild lipase elevations, and no ALT changes. Are th=
ese coincidental? In the vast majority of cases we cannot identify an infe=
ctious agent via history or biopsies.

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