Message Number: FHL7086 | New FHL Archives Search
From: "Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2008-12-15 18:30:23 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re:Pain management for ulcer
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com


>
> He is still having intermittent bloody (not tarry) stools. Stools
> when not bloody are birdseed grainy and sloppy. By bloody I mean red
> with frank blood not scantily streaked. He cries or whines whenever
> defaecating, even when under the influence of the Tramadol. Parasites
> ruled out because he has not been exposed to anything that could have
> caused Giardia or Coccidia and has never had this problem in the past.


Tressie, with that description there are several possibilities,
but i don't think I'd be so fast to assume it can't be coccidia,
especially one of the nastier Eimeria species strains, a form
of E. furonis, which DOES present like that, and has caused
a number of deaths.

You'll want to see:

http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YPG616

http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YPG592

http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YPG591

http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YPG590

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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