From:
"suedvm96"
Date: 2010-08-03 04:25:43 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: difficulty passing feces without actual constipation
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
I would tend to think there is some nerve involvement causing the walking and going and for me I would use Therapy Laser to see if it would help the nerves.
If the poop is dry and is hard for him to go you might try using Lactulose, this helps pull fluid from elsewhere into the colon to loosen up the poop. The dose may need to be titrated until you get the right dose, start with a ml and go up or down from there.
Not sure if that helps but figured I would throw in my 2 cents. Good luck with your little miracle kid.
Dr Sue
TLC First Animal Hospital
Chicago, IL
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, Sukie Crandall <sukiec@...> wrote:
>
> Hilbert who is 7 years and 8 months old is having some trouble passing
> feces. He appear to need to walk to defecate and then, of course,
> where and when it comes out isn't under control. It is also getting
> drier, though in other ways it's normal. His urination is sometimes
> in a puddle but sometimes in a stream as he walks. He is able to
> urinate and defecate. The waste just winds up in many locations to
> clean (though he is good about letting us know that he has gone).
>
> Hilbert has a history of a number of serious health problems: cystine
> uroliths, bladder diverticulum, bilateral hydronephrosis (when the
> uroliths were removed and diverticulum repaired in his first year his
> adrenals also came out due to be being so inflamed by the rubbing of
> his swollen kidneys but an emergency vascular clip caught a little of
> his right one. He had a massive pancreatic beta cell tumor out
> earlier this year and went into a serious level of diabetes that later
> resolved but also was causing acute kidney failure (so he had survived
> serious kidney impairment twice in life by then). A matter of weeks
> or months later he got a severe GI virus which caused extreme
> dehydration and further kidney problems (though I can't recall if he
> also began kidney failure that time) and also almost killed him but
> with care he got past that, too. The remaining adrenal remnant that
> has gone hyper-hormonal can not be found.
>
> He is on deslorelin implant for adrenal disease, Prednisolone
> (insulinoma and adrenal insufficiency) and Fludrocort (adrenal
> insufficiency). Right now he is eating often enough that he has not
> needed diazoxide (which he terribly hates but which helped him a lot
> when he did not eat often enough even when he ate enough volume in
> total)
>
> So, he has and has had multiple things which might be contributing to
> the dry and hard to pass feces. If his kidneys are creating more
> dilute urine now there may be less in his solid waste to begin with,
> the virus might have messed up his peristalsis, his prostate may be
> starting up and making it harder to pass either urine or feces or
> both. His latest bladder and heart x-rays are fine, ditto his recent
> blood work (CBC and Chem Panel) but kidney disease can often be hidden
> in ferrets.
>
> As a result Steve and I need input from people who know more about
> this topic than I do, and obviously, I will be asking his excellent
> vets.
>
>
> Sukie (not a vet)
>
> Recommended ferret health links:
> http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
> http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
> http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
> http://www.miamiferret.org/
> http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
> http://www.ferretcongress.org/
> http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
> http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
> all ferret topics:
> http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html
>
> "All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow."
> (2010, Steve Crandall)
>
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