From:
"argenrican0302"
Date: 2007-10-17 21:18:42 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Need help to solve a 4-5 month mystery.
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "ncferretmom" <crdowns@...>
wrote:
>
> Well, your post raised more questions than it answered. When my
> ferret, Dodger, had what appeared to be something in his belly, we
> thought it was a hairball, too. THe vet (not a ferret vet) offered
to
> remove it and I agreed. When he got to the liver, something popped
> out. It was a biliary cyst adenocarcinoma. The cystic quality in
front
> of the stomach made it appear to be in the stomach.
>
> I am not a vet, but am sure my vet would want a little more info.
> Could you supply the following, plaease?
> 1. age of ferret
> 2. how much weight loss? Has weight stabilized? Has she regained all
> lost weight? (What was her weight and what IS her weight now?
> 3. What antibiotic? how much and why? other than elevated WBC, I
presume
> 4. * First vet suggested it may be DIM or Aleutians or LSA
> WHY? Was ferret tested for ADV?
> 5. If carafate helped, why was it not refilled? Was ferret on other
drugs?
> 6. Could you post the values of both sets of bloodwork? It may help
> the vets on the list.
> 7. Heart problems? Did they occur after all of this? Or with it?
>
Additional Information:
* Ferret is 1 Yr and 2-3 months old
* Weight History: at about 4 mos (before everything) she weighed 1lb
3oz, When all of this started at around 10 months she weighed 1lb
9oz, At 11 months she weighed 1lb 14 oz, at a yr and 1 month she
weighed 1lb 13 oz, and now shes at 1lb 19oz. (I guess she didn't
loose weight,she actually had been gaining weight due to her age
difference from the first time we had taken her to the vet, compared
to now, however when you looked at her she was very thin and bony,
more so than usual)
* The antibiotics she was on was first amoxicillin .2ccs, for like
two days (because we had taken her to an emercency clinic and thats
what they gave me for her fever of 104) then the next day we went to
the normal vet and he prescribed me baytril .2 ccs 2x a day and also
later on flagyl .2 ccs 2x a day, to try and treat what they thought
might have been DIM, due to the increase in WBC in her body.
* Her temperature had gone down from 104 to 102, and now it's back up
to 104.5
* They said that the increase in Globulin was not normal with DIM so
they said it was more consistent with Aleutians. So they did
electrophorisis and it came out with a monocloral spike which was
consistent with Aleutians Dis or LSA, however they never did tests to
confirm what she really had. They did not test for ADV.
* other than high white blood cell count (11.2), Low MCV (43), low
MCH (13.8), High protien (7.8), Low Albumin (2.1), Low calcium (7.6),
Low Potassium (3.5), High Chloride (111), and High Globulin (5.7)
Those are the most recent stats I have available at this point and
these were from the begining of September, I don't have the
information on the most current bloodwork, however, the vet had told
me that the glucose levels were high compared to the last bloodwork
where it was normal(117). He also mentioned that the globulin and the
WBC, were still high, and gave us antibiotics for it and also for her
fever of 104.5 the antibiotic is called Clavamox .2 ccs 2x daily.
* They denied me a refil on the carafate because they said that if
she wasn't getting better, she would need to come in to be checked
again. So I went to a more knowlegdable vet.
* Im really not sure about her heart, but it seems according to the
records I have, that it started after she got sick. Because there is
no record saying that she had an irregular heart beat until about a
month after she got sick.
* Here are the x-rays they took with the barium:
http://pets.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/photos/browse/7d58
Hope This helps.
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