From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-01-01 16:38:51 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Vomiting ferret - persistent ulcer?
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Just to be safest read this to see if the description fits:
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/megaesophagus.htm
This is a little old but should help because it has a lot of info.
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/ulcers.html
Helicobacter is so common that it can't be discounted. Newer medical approaches are
often based on a decently long run of Biaxin and Amoxi. Carafate can be gotten these
days as a liquid prep from any pharmacy and that standard one has pretty good
acceptance with a number of ferrets.
Carafate (Generic name: Sucralfate) but the company's liquid prep is only a few years old
so that prep may not be in generic. This med MUST be separated in time from medications
or foods. Food will block it, preventing it from settling well enough into ulcerations. It
can coat medications, making them unusable. Recommended amounts of time separating
these things vary. For safety's sake we are inclined to give a half hour before the next
meal for a sick one to an hour before meds ourselves on the principal that we'd like to be
optimally careful. Those amounts of time may be over the top, but the time between
Carafate and food or meds has been increased for humans in recent years, so it's just a
worried judgement call on our part.
Here is an IBD article from only a few years ago:
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/Ferret%20IBD.pdf
and this is on ferret GI reports:
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/PDF/Ferret_GI_path_reports.pdf
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