From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-01-15 16:40:24 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re:need info on dead ferret syndrome
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
First off, do not try Prednisone or Prednisolone without knowing that you are dealing with
insulinoma or at least with low blood sugar. Too high a blood glucose can cause the same
symptoms and giving such steroids then packs too much of a punch in the wrong
direction. Use sugars and get to the vet.
In this case I think that you have to also consider other options, including a perforation or
an ulcer causing anemia.
20 minutes while actively trying to wake one is unusually long. BTW, what usually works
fastest is to blow on the ferret's nose, not in but on.
I think it is definitely time for a vet appointment, examination and testing. This is NOT a
monitor at home situation (and nothing unusual or worrisome ever should be a monitor at
home situation in the beginning). This ferret may have an ulcer, may have had injury from
a passed blockage, or may have a moving partial blockage, as well as other possibilities.
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "Tootsie Mead" <weaseluva@...> wrote:
>
> What I meant about DFS was that my friend tried to wake her and she would not wake
up, it took 20 mintues for her to wake up!
... A week before that, she was lethargic, not eating well and had a bout with 3 dark tarry
looking stools!
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