From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2006-12-30 16:27:37 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: weight gain
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "Sheryl" <miwok34@...> wrote:
>
> The vet believes that Komay does have helicobacter.
IBD or a stand-alone food intolerance might also be possible.
a/d has chicken and she might have an intolerance to either chicken or poultry.
In such a situation try lamb, beef, ham, or veal baby foods and see what happens with
each. Some may work but in a few rare ferrets with extreme IBD even some meats are not.
Skip the kibble during these trials or it will alter the results checking for intolerance, esp,
if it contains poultry.
If they work give her some time and then try turkey to see if she tolerates it or not. We've
had one who could tolerate no poultry at all.
See if your vet can send you some z/d because that is already broken down to amino acids
so unlikely to trigger intolerance or allergy. You need to talk with the vet anyway. The vet
should know about the bleeding in detail, and should okay any food trials beforehand.
Remember that allergies are commonly triggered to things to which an individual has had
many exposures before, and that some types of intolerance ccan come up with gradually
worsening inflammation from many exposures.
On the other hand, some inflammation may happen suddenly. We believe in very small
trials of a food item before trying it, having had heavy cream almost kill an IBD ferret when
it strongly did not agree with his gut. Individuals vary in that way.
Sukie (not a vet)
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