From:
"SukieC"
Date: 2010-09-27 01:44:47 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Is thi common?
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
I am so sorry for your loss.
With sub-adult ferrets this problem is much too common.
In addition to the moderator's comments these and some
other posts in the archives could be of help. (Moderator's
notes below my sig lines.)
Read:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG9449
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG1827
Notice that you are dealing not only with the damage that
the blockage itself can cause, but with toxin build-up and
with problems from lack of food intake, so the situation
can get very bad fast. I was looking for a past vet post that
I did not find which indicated that with a full blockage there
is something like a 24 hour window, and the longer one goes
beyond that the greater the risk of surgical complications or
death still occurring due to the blockage itself and the complications
from that. It still is the only chance the ferret has in that
situation. I could not find that post, though.
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
> [With a complete blockage surgery is the only chance but it is
> very risky due to the damage that the foreign bodies and the
> inability to defecate themselves cause. Basically, this is a
> life or death type of surgery complete with the risks one
> expects for something so serious. In that situation the ferret
> would have died within about a day more without surgery so
> you and the vet did the right thing by trying.
>
> -- Moderator]
>
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