From:
"Karen McCabe"
Date: 2009-08-01 07:03:46 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Fossa Grinding Teeth til mouth bleeds not ulcers Any Ideas? Euthanization Lurks
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "Mary Jo" <mary_jo_bright@...> wrote:
>
> 5 days later I find her with a bloody tail. I thought she had been stepped on or something. She was covered in blood. Afterwards come to find out her tail was fine. The fresh blood was from her mouth. She was grinding her teeth so much that the blood had leaked all over her tail (from being curled up).
>
I've had several with bleeding from the mouth, just as you've described. In all but one the cause was lymphoma. In that one the cause was insulinomas, her pancreas had actually split in half (found on necropsy....nothing showed on ultrasound).
You might consider exploratory surgery as an option before euthanasia, though it may be risky and you may find there's nothing that can be done.
Karen McCabe
http://www.cinnamonsprite.net
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/adrenalferretslist/
[Moderator's Note:
Kidney disease, too, can also cause that since it causes
mouth and throat ulcerations. Kidney disease can be
chronic or it can be acute such as sudden kidney failure
from eating too many raisins or grapes -- a documented
cause of kidney failure in ferrets, cats and dogs in multiple
nations. Since it is unclear how many are too many we
stopped allowing access to those some time ago.
With very young ferrets the most common form of
Lymphoma is JL, Juvenile Lymphoma, and for them seeing
an enlarged thymus on a chest x-ray is a giveaway to what
is happening. I seem to recall this is a young ferret?
Young ferrets are also more prone to eating foreign
objects, some of which can injure the GI tract, causing
bleeding. All ferrets are at rick for that but the young
are most inclined.]
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