From:
"Clover Williams"
Date: 2008-03-07 13:42:18 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Need help diagnosing foamy white poop
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Buddy, the ferret that Dr Williams talks about in the quote below, is my ferret. I did have
bloodwork done on him because of his white stool,becaue of suspected liver problems.
After I posted the resulting blood values I recieved the post below. I rushed him to his
regular vet for a transfusion only to find out the initial blood test was wrong--my vet said
it looked like the dire readings were probably the result of the first test having been
accidentally diluted. Anyway, he wasn't anemic and his blood was normal except for
slightly elevated creatine (I think it was). So I never did find out what caused the white
stool, but it wasn't anemia or liver problems. The white stool has been a recurring problem
for years. It happens intermittantly for maybe 4-6 weeks, and then doesn't come back for
6 months to a year. Every now and then I repost to see whether anyone can figure it out.
So far, no luck. But Buddy's still alive at 10 and a half.
This may or may not be related, but a short while ago, he started having stool with mucus
and frank blood, which escalated to tarry while I was still trying to figure out whose stool it
was. I put him on Albon and since then he's had the most normal stools he's had in years.
Because the white stool is intermittant I don't know yet whether the Albon cleared that up
as well. Now, according to my vet, the fact that Albon may have helped doesn't mean he
had coccidea. There are other things helped by that drug. But it still may be something to
pursue.
Buddy also probably has lymphoma. Aspirates and tissue samples didn't confirm that, but
over a year ago a vet I trust implicitly said he suspected it, and Buddy is showing some
familiar signs. So his white poo may be related to that if lymphoma can simmer that long.
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "Sukie Crandall" <sukie@...> wrote:
>
> HAVE BLOOD TESTS BEEN DONE?
>
> I am wondering if the insulinoma has allowed a Helicobacter
> infection to take off, and if the steroids have played into that, .
>
> The reasons i wonder this are:
>
> 1. Biaxin is one of the antibiotics which can knock down
> Helicobacter. To be most effective it needs to be given along
> with Amoxicillin.
>
> 2. Anemia can cause white feces.
>
> The things that say otherwise are that a person would normally
> expect black feces with a GI bleed but not always. See:
>
> http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YPG1074
>
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