From:
"Susan Liszewski DVM"
Date: 2007-02-02 04:36:25 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: 71/2 month old male ferret sick for 5 weeks....
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
This ferret is really anemic. he is prob losing blood from the
diarrhea or else somewhere else. He is dropping quite rapidly and
something needs to be done before he drops any further. You might
need to have him transfused. Sometimes when the anemia gets so bad
it also causes diarrhea because the vessels to the gut are not the
ones being maintained the most so they actually can start to die
off. I have had animals that were transfused and the counts getting
back to normal and all else resolved. Not to say that is what is
happening here but it could. Hope you are able to find anwers that
can help you but it is still possible to be one of the disease that
really have no effective treatment. best of luck
Dr. Sue
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, Wendy Brandon
<wendyhairlady@...> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I got the other blood results from the vet today. I
> apologize in advance for the misspellings in the names
> the were given to me on the phone.
>
> white blood cells 5,060 (on 1/15/07) 4,675 (on
> 1/29/07)
> PCV 25% (1/15/07) 15% (1/19/07)
> Red Blood Cells 4.2 x 10 to the sixth (1/15/07) 2.5 x
> 10 to the sixth (1/29/07)
> hemoglobin 8.3 g/dl (1/15/07) 5 g/dl (1/29/07)
> Total protein 4.8 g/dl (1/15/07) 4 g/dl (1/29/07)
>
> differnecials
> nutracells 50% (1/15/07) 58% (1/29/07)
> lipocytes 46% (1/15/07) 30% (1/29/07)
> monoytes 2% (1/15/07) 4% (1/29/07)
> eycoshils 2% (1/15/07) none seen 1/29/07
> basocills none on 1/15/07 2% on 1/19/07
>
> on 1/15 the red blood cells were thin on the slide
> on 1/29 the red blood cells were also thin and there
> where changes in them.
>
> We have been since this past tuesday giving Cho a
> puree chicken with ferretvite and ferretone. Up til
> yesterday afternoon Cho was experiencing frequent
> diarrhea. Last night I didn't not see Cho have a BM
> but he did urinate. Today he ate his special blend,
> drank water, we gave him fluids and the epogen I saw
> him urinate 3x and 2 of those there was a small about
> of poo that was a brown color.
>
> thank you again,
> Wendy
>
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