From:
Motor City Ferrets
Date: 2009-09-16 20:18:07 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Coccidia and possible impact on a 3 hour crash
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
If he has insulinoma he should start supportive steroids to help get his glucose levels regular. I wouldn't consider surgery for a 7 year old, but critters can do very well on steroids (we only use Pedia-Pred) for quite some time - up to 4 years in our experience, although of course one wouldn't expect a 7 year old to live to be 11 in any case. As for the honey, I've never had any luck giving sugar orally. Better bet is to give him a 5% dextrose solution sub q to raise him quickly, then start meds and supportive feeding to get him back on track. Of course this means a visit to a vet, even if you have to travel.
Perhaps the emergence of insulinoma allowed the coccidia to flourish. When we see critters first start to have trouble with insulinoma all sorts of other things can crop up, such as a flourish of coccidia or ulcers, etc. The two problems are not otherwise related, so even if you get the coccidia knocked back if he has insulinoma he'll need treatment asap!
Nanci
Motor City Ferrets
www.motorcityferrets.org
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From: kathleendodson <kathleen.d.dodson@gmail.com>
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 4:02:04 PM
I have not posted for a while but have been watching the discussions of recent about Coccidia. Bookker recently struggled with unresolvable diarhea. Took him to the vet and he tested positive for coccidia, took a while for things to improve. We are now on the 12th day of antibiotics (albon) and I am treating all for of my fuzzies. Bookker does have an unusually large spleen and he is adrenal. I have him at the vets now getting updated blood work. The problem is last night he crashed, for 3 hours. I have had ferrets for 15 years and never had a ferret not come out if it with some food, or some honey. Then he was doing this open mouthed panting anytime I tried to move him. He was absolutely and completely limp otherwise. (His stools had just started to firm up a day or two ago) I finally gave him some bupronex for pain, put him on a heating pad and said goodbye figuring it was hopeless (we live in the hinterlands and access to a vet that knows
anything about ferrets is pretty much impossible. I am assuming he is now struggling with blood sugar control for some reason. I am not willing to risk surgery at his age even if it is an option(close to 7 years I think. Any ideas or suggestions regarding what I should be trying would be appreciated. Thank you.
Kathleen: Bookker, Little Bear, Boo and Poppy and in rememberance of the loss of Kosmo and Pandy this last year.
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