From:
"Patricia Kaczorowski"
Date: 2007-05-23 16:18:02 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] ear infection from a ferret
To: <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>
what do you mean by ear infection? do you mean local skin irritation and infection or external ear canal infection ( like with swimmer;s ear) or middle ear infection. Do you have to take antibiotics, or just ear drops, or do you just put bacitracin on it and it gets better?
If you notice a problem, then just don't allow them to chew on or lick your ear.
It makes sense to avoid it if you notice an issue afterwards. However, there would be no correlation between a middle ear infection and what you describe, just possble skin infection from the bacteria in the ferret's mouth or even from the surface of your skin if the skin is broken during the cleaning process.
patty Kaczorowski
----- Original Message -----
From: neal
ok this might be alittle strange 2 of my ferrets love to clean my ears
and yes they scruff me by my ear lobe to do it. what i have noticed
is after this i have been getting ear infections right after they
have been doing this. has anyone seen this before.
neal
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