From:
"marie-agnes"
Date: 2010-04-06 15:15:15 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Aerosol Chamber - Bronchitis -
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Hi Everybody
First a big thank you for all the answers and great suggestions you gave to me. You all have helped me to finally find a way to do Nahum Bronchitis treatment with the less stress possible.
An idea brought another idea, and with many tries I ended up to put Nahum in his round basket, or in his sleeping bag and all this lovely kit in a long transparent plastic bag. I put my hand inside it holding the Inhalator aerosol. With my other hand I close the plastic bag around my wrist (around the hand inside the bag holding the Inhalator) And I did a push ...
(I don't use anymore the Aerosol Chamber, the plastic mask stresses Nahum.)
Between the 2 kind of Inhalator aerosol (Flovent HFA (125mcg)& APO Salvent (100mcg)) I open completely the plastic bag to let enter fresh air.
I talked about this with the technician at the Animal hospital and she said to let Nahum 15 seconds like this in the plastic bag. It was confirmed by the cardiologist who said 15 seconds, no more 20 seconds, because the danger of the CO2, counting at least 10 breaths of Nahum (but Nahum has a very fast breath, so I go with the 15 seconds)
So if one day you have to go through this treatment with your ferret, please ask to your vet, about this procedure for to make sure about how long and about how many breaths you need to let your little one in this "big chamber"
For now I don't see a real improvement, but at least Nahum condition isn't worse so I believe he is stabilized.
Now about the blood test, Nahum is too much low in potassium and Nahum has a new supplement to take each 12 hours.
- potassium 1 ml (2 x day) (2 mL : 468mg of Potassium Gluconate)
For one week Nahum has had 1 ml per 24 hours, but the Dr did another blood test, and the potassium was still low. So now for two weeks Nahum will have 1 ml at each 12 hours, and after we will return at 1 ml per day.
Nahum poops have changed a lot : more liquid, almost formed, a lot gas, not black, but dark brown. We are not certain what is causing this, if it the potassium supplement ? if it is the bronchitis treatment or something else ?
Nahum has already Fortiflora supplement since almost 3 months, and that helped him a lot at first, but seems to be less efficient.
Thank you again so much
Marie-Agnes and Nahum
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