From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-01-20 22:49:59 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: white poop
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "Clover Williams" <rezgrrl@...> wrote:
>
> I ask about this every once in a while--I don't know whether I've asked here yet. Buddy
> often has loose white poop. When I ask shelter moms they either say they haven't seemn it
> or they say "oh, like mucus." Nope. Not like mucus. White. Sometimes it looks like runny
> poop that has been mixed with very thick white paint. Sometimes, off-white curds in runny
> poop. Sometimes, like today, very very white, thick, and unformed. I took pictures, which
> I'll try to put in the photo section or people can email me.
>
> I have asked a few vets. Every so often, when I get the poo tested, the vet looks for
> parasites (only--but I don't know what else to look for and evidentally neither do any of
> the vets I've seen) and tells me the test is negative. He's an old guy, and seems to be
> slowing down a lot lately though it's nothing I can put my finger on except slightly stiffer,
> wobblier than usual back legs. He's had multiple false diagnoses for different things over
> the years. A few months ago he went in for adrenal surgery and there was nothing wrong
> there, but the vet took out his spleen. two seperate lymph node aspirates looked good but
> the vet still thought there might be lymphoma in the background. At that point he was
> weened off the very high dose of pred he'd been on because of a false diagnosis of
> insulinoma (because of the wobbliness and a one-time borderline glucose count), but he's
> still on a tiny bit in case of lymphoma. he hasn't had a solid turd in forever and I've tried
> everything for that. But since he hated diarrhea treatments, still seemed happy otherwise,
> and nothing helped anyway, I finally decided to stop worrying about loose-to-liquid poo.
>
> The white poo still worries me though, and it's getting whiter and more frequent. And I
> swaer I remember mention of white poo on one of the boards, in a long post about
> something very nasty but treatable. I'm still hoping somebody remembers that or knows
> what I'm talking about.
>
> Thanks,
> Clover
>
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