From:
"lcamp3000"
Date: 2008-12-31 14:24:11 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] puss-filled toes
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Has anyone out there had any similar experience?
My Bobo is a 7-8 yr. old male who in November had a chordoma at the
base of his tail (which was growing rapidly towards his main body)
removed.(sample came back benign)
He was on Clinisol drops before and after surgery.
About 2 weeks after sugery I noticed one toe on one foot was very
swollen(you could see the white puss through the skin). Since he
hated the Clinisol so much we tried a shot of Convenia (off label)
for him.
By 2 weeks after that he had puss-swollen toes on every foot. We
gassed him down and lanced the toes but the puss was not fluid (it
looks exactly like the hard white cheesey puss that rabbits get) we
scraped out what we could and sent in a sample (the results came back
negative).
Since then he's been on B-Penicillin injections and a daily foot
soaking in Nolvasan solution. It has not improved at all, but it has
not gotten worse either.
He does not seem to be in pain; I can massage the toes and he doesn't
mind, he eats/sleeps/plays normally.
He does pee on me immediately when I remove him from his cage, that
is new.
Even though he eats normally, he is just now starting to loose weight
and his spine and ribs are beginning to show.
My vet thinks it is some sort of auto-immune thing going on, but we
are really stumped by this. Has any one else ever seen these symptoms?
Could the chordoma surgery 2 weeks prior to all this have triggered
something in him? Let me know if you'd like some photos of this.
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