From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2008-12-22 16:13:52 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] a compilation on the possible new virulent "ECE"
To: fhl <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>
Remember that we are still awaiting test results to
know if this is an ECE mutant/strain or not.
Parts of Dr. Ruth's posts on symptoms and on
treatments being tried:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL7149
> Also, a few of the ferrets have had some green diarrhea, but it is
> not the "green slime" that is characteristic of classic ECE.
>
> This is a heads up - don't think it can't be ECE just because the
> stool isn't
> green anymore. Make sure your vet considers ECE.
...
> Symptoms are:
>
>
>
>
> -from happy, healthy, bouncy ferret to cold/flat/extremely
> dehydrated ferret
> with or without bloody diarrhea in the span of less than eight hours
>
>
> -it is extremely difficult to rehydrate these ferrets - some of them
> have
> been getting 200 or more cc of fluids per day
>
>
> -some of them will eat on their own, others will not
>
>
> -copious diarrhea, liquid, progressing to bloody
>
>
> -NO vomiting
>
>
> -the diarrhea is NOT green
>
>
> -death can be as rapid as eight hours after first onset of clinical
> signs
>
>
> -some ferrets have broken with a bit of diarrhea, but have not shown
> the
> other signs and have recovered uneventfully
>
>
>
>
> We have gotten several severely affected ferrets through this to full
> recovery.
From http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL7164
> I've added Tamiflu and omeprazole to the regimen, taken them off
> Baytril as
> that seemed to be contributing to anorexia, and am contemplating
> slippery elm
> bark and interferon (don't want to add too many things at one time).
>
> And as always, please do remember that this is not 100% confirmed to
> be ECE
> yet - everything points in that direction, but until I get back the
> results
> from MSU, we don't know for sure.**
[The Carafate the ferrets are getting is of course separated in time
from the other medications and the food. --SDC]
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/message/8687
> Hadn't said, but the ones I've checked have had normal or low normal
> albumin.
> Only two of the ferrets have had the edema, and both were in kidney
> failure,
> so I suspect it was more related to the kidney failure than anything
> else.
That's all that I can put together at this point, but I think that it
is inclusive to this point in time.
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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