From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2008-04-30 18:10:08 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Oliver: questions about liver and kidney disease
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "Tonya" <ptatgog7981@...> wrote:
>
> Hi. I am new to the list. My name is Tonya and I am posting about
> Oliver. He will be 6yr. old in October. In August 2007 he had his
> left adrenal removed and he also has insulomina. He goes every 4
> weeks for a lupron shot. Over the last week he has been vomiting
> some. On Monday he had a full blood panel ran on him. His dr. was
> very busy that day and told me to start heading home, (I live 2hrs.
> from the vet) she would call me when they finish his blood. When she
> called she told me everything was elevated. She told me they showed
> signs of early liver and kidney disease. I have been waiting on her
> to email the numbers from his panel but she is very busy so I haven't
> gotten that yet. I was hoping that maybe someone here can give me
> some answers.
> Oliver is not able to have surgery. His adrenal surgery was very
> hard on him. My vet mentioned that she can do a liver biopsy.
> Since he can't have surgery what are my other options?
> What can I expect him to go through from liver and kidney disease?
> He has been vomiting what can I give him to calm his tummy down?
> Should I continue lupron?
> Thank you for taking the time to read this.
> Tonya
>
The first thing to do is to make sure WHICH values are up and how the
various values look in relation to each other.
So, if your vet can email you a copy of the report that is readable feel free
to share the results and people will look at those. One of my weaknesses
is that I am lousy at that task but there are vets, veterinary techs, and
others here who excel at it.
The other thing to do now is to share the texts of the following very important
pathology info on ferret tests with your vet. Ferrets differ from other animals
and some things that would indicate problems in another species do not in
ferrets and vice versa. These are by one of the world's leading experts
(possibly THE leading one) on ferret pathology, Dr. Bruce Williams:
http://www.afip.org/consultation/vetpath/ferrets/Clin_Path/ClinPath.html
http://www.afip.org/consultation/vetpath/ferrets/PDF/Ferret_GI_path_reports.pdf
http://www.afip.org/consultation/vetpath/ferrets/PDF/10_steps.pdf
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