From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2008-11-21 16:16:47 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: crusty bloody tail
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Time to do pathology work and skin scraping, I think.
If you go to the very easily used and well designed FHL Archives:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
and search under:
skin
it will take a bit of sorting
but you will find info on several *treatable* conditions that
might explain what you are seeing.
Here are some possibilities:
Cutaneous lymphoma (which CAN be treated more successfully
than other forms if it is just among the things for which testing
is done)
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL1761
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG525
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/SG11144
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG11076
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG276
Pemphigus
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL1766
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/SG12950
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG203
but not that it is blistering illness:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG167
Mites/Mange (Sarcoptes or sarcoptic and Demodex for some search words)
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL436
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG1061
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG9188
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG9210
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/SG5781
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/SG14589
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/SG18611
Fungus or bacteria:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG484
Allergy with secondary bacterial infection:
We have one, Hilbert, who develops skin allergies each
year when the wild plantain (a local type of weed, not the
fruit) goes above a certain level here. If the levels get
too high the affected patches (which are usually on his
back but can be elsewhere) begin to look like you describe.
At that point, he typically has a secondary bacterial
infection. Now, we know his trigger well enough that we
can do preventive medicating, so this last year he was
able to avoid any secondary infections.
We and the vets had really expected that he'd turn up as
having Cutaneous Lymphoma (which is treatable) but he
turned out to be weird instead.
From your description I wonder most about a situation like
Hilbert's or Cutaneous Lymphoma.
Sukie (not a vet)
Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
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