From:
"E Mead"
Date: 2010-12-31 04:02:55 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: female ferret with "vaginitis"?
To: <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>
Thank you all for your replies, suggestions and help. She went to another vet today and he palpitated her for quite some time and was having a rough time trying to find her adrenals as she seems to have a big soft mass ( he said not hard tumor like) He could not even really locate her kidneys and feels she has polysistic kidney?
[polycystic = many cysts]
He did not feel another Des implant at this time was a good idea, instead he said to use the money towards a ultrasound. The problem now is getting the ultrasound as the guy who does it is on vacation this week and travels from practice to practice during the week. The soonest he will be at their place is next Friday. I called and left a message with my regular vet to see if she could find out when he would be at her place (he is usually there on Wednesdays). I am using A & D ointment (thanks to Angela on this list, thank you Angela) on her sensitive areas and it seems to help a tiny bit. I am so afraid of losing her. She is still eating but just goes right back to hide and sleep. I am going to call my vet tomorrow to see if I can get a little bit of pain meds for her until we can get this problem resolved. Any other ideas? as this is a long weekend and we know all problems seem to happen on holidays or sundays.
My oldest boy Buddy, 7 1/2 years old, just got his first Des implant as he is now adrenal, just starting losing hair about 2 months ago or so and lost most of it within the last month. He did have a Melatonin implant about 1 1/2 months ago and Lupron injection a month ago. I also brought in my DMK boy Twitch as he has a lump on the top of his head. My vet looked at it, shaved around it and got a little from it and put it on a slide and said the cells did not look familiar, they were not sebaceious and she thought maybe not a mast cell tumor and said to call her back if it got bigger as she thinks it is a hista something or other. This vet said no, ferrets do not get them and he thinks it could possibly be a mast cell tumor as there are flat ones and raised ones. This thing started out last week like the feel of a Melatonin implant and within a week got to be 3 x its size. Anyway this vet suggests getting him in and having it removed and biopsied, which I will do.
Eleanor
[Sometimes when a ferret has signs of a very infected
vagina a culture may be needed to find the most
effective antibiotic(s). At times the cervical stump from
the uterus is infected and needs to be removed and
some vets feel the rates of this increase with adrenal
disease. Some times the nearby urethra also can
cause the bladder to have an infection. At times there
is an entirely different problem like an apocrine growth
and even one with an abscess though that is rare.
These presentations can be very hard to treat depending
on how hard it is to track down the cause, and some of the
area bleeds so readily the surgery is often avoided there.
Oh, and change waste areas often because females sometimes
wipe in the wrong place and get waste or litter in there
if the swelling is large, worsening the situation.
(Been there.)
For a sudden large growth on the top of the head also consider:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL5403
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YPG1492
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