From:
"Barbara Clay"
Date: 2008-12-31 18:29:39 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: puss-filled toes
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Hi,
Wow that's something with those toes! Please understand that I'm not
remotely suggesting this is your situtaion; but I have seen this
condition many times before in some of the rescues I've done. This
was a result of their feet being feces/urine encased, actually looking
like little boots. Once the encasement was removed, done so with a
warm water soak and antiseptic cleanser, there were enormous red
swollen toes and paw pads, and many were infected. It would take
about two weeks for their feet to return to normal, some requiring an
antibiotic.
What I'm suggesting here is that there might be an environmental
cause. Your Bobo may be ultra-sensitive to his own urine. You might
want to change the type of litter you're using and see if there's any
improvement. Is he clearing himself when he urinates, or does it
dribble down his legs perhaps? Also thinking environmentally, I'd
make sure that he wasn't walking on bare wire cage bottom grids,
especially so if not PVC coated. Even the slightest tear in their
webbing would be an invitation for inflammation/and or infection.
Please update us, and here's hoping your sweet Bobo gets this cleared up.
Affectionately,
Barb Clay
Dir of Shelter Affairs for Rocky's
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "lcamp3000" <lcamp1000@...> wrote:
>
> 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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