Message Number: FHL2053 | New FHL Archives SearchFrom: Ferretwise
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:41:59 -0400
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] update on Willow and Butter
GET A SECOND VET OPINION CLOVER!!
_Mucous discharge and Green crusting is INFECTION PLain & SIMPLE--
Did you mention Pyometra? It is possible that her spay waqs bothched and
she has a stump pyometra infection. It can take 3-4 years for those to
slowly develop I have seen it happen!
If so, Only an exploratory surgery can save her from this!
Lupron does not treat an infection- she needs to be on Baytril to kill that!
If she gets sicker she will die!
I really really think you need a second veterinary opinion ASAP and PLEASE
bring copies of the vet records from the first clinic!
Alicia D
www.ferretwise.org
At 10:50 AM 8/2/2007, you wrote:
>Well, the vet looked at both. For Willow, he said that he believes
>the discharge is just her body protecting against irritants that get
>caught in her (enlarged) vulva. Said if it changes color or something
>he could prescribe antibiotics (I did point out that it already
>crusts green.) He was baffled about why the vulva have stayed
>enlarged when she gained fur, energy, and weight over six months ago.
>We ran blood tests and she's not anemic. I asked about (??) the med
>that's used to bring females out of heat. Even though she's not (will
>never be) in heat, I thought that with the tumor mimicking estrus,
>this could help. He doesn't know about it because he's not used to
>intact ferrets but said that with the tumor still there, it would
>help for maybe a week at best. I'm wondering, though, the vulva were
>swollen for so long before I got her and she got treatment, maye they
>just need an extra boost of something to go down? Or maybe they'll
>just stay that way and it's OK, except for whatever's causing the
>discharge? He suggested doubling the lupron but didn't should too
>sure (might as well try it if you want, I think his words were.) No
>cultures were run. Anybody think I should try an antibiotic? Doubling
>the lupron?
>
>Now, Butter. Still don't know anything more about that either, except
>new descriptive terminology. The thing is papilloma-like, peri-anal,
>and doesn't seem to be attached. It's not sensitive either and, as I
>mentioned, it's growing slowly. Again, just a visual/manual exam.
>(Vet said it looks like a skin tab, which is what I said.) He said
>he'd never seen one there and thinks it's rare. He wondered whether
>it's rare enough that someone here would like to biopsy it for free--
>just in the name of science or curiousity, and suggested I offer a
>digital pic.
>
>So, no diagnosis for either one. No treatment plan either, though
>it's good to know Willow's not anemic.
>
>
>
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