From:
"Sarah"
Date: 2011-03-14 17:12:40 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Lymphoblastic L with diarrhoea
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Hi, I'm new to this site, and in the UK.
I have a second (consecutive not concurrent)ferret diagnosed with LBL. I rescued Casper at about 6-7 weeks in a very poor condition, apart from being separated from his siblings and mother far too early. I nursed him back to health, assisted by the vet and I now have a very funny, playful, loving, alert boy who is now 20 months old. Casper's being treated with Prednisilone and Antepsin (I think it's our version of the Carafate?) but the Antepsin is only short-term to see if it helps his very loose stools and diarrhoea. This was the first symptom which originally made me take him to the vet, and I then discovered a lump just below his ribs on his right, spleen side I think. X-ray showed a uniform mass (I'd thought/hoped it was an obstruction) and so we started him on Pred as I declined chemo after reading Dr Bruce Williams' prognoses on protocols.
I see that people have recently been asking about Essiac as a treatment/support for cancer. There is another herbal mix based on Essiac but called Flor Essence and I'd been wondering if this would be any better. After looking through the side-effects I'm not so sure as it can increase diarrhoea, but not necessarily.
1. Has anyone tried Flor Essence and has experience of the side-effects?
2. Any suggestions for his very loose stools (PeptoBismol?)?
Thank you very much in advance for any advice.
Sarah
Casper, Mitch, Chiquita, Koko
[I am not familiar with LBL as an
abbreviation here. Is it
lymphoblastic lymphoma
which is also known as juvenile
lymphoma? The meds fit,
but usually with that you
expect signs like a large
thymus rather than a splenic
tumor (left side, but a very
large one can curve around and
have the lowest part in the right
abdomen (having had one like
that), or a tumor of the organs on
the right such as liver, gall bladder,
right kidney, right adrenal gland,
etc.
How was the diagnosis made? If
lymphoma, might you have had one
with lymphoblastic lymphoma but
perhaps this one has a different form
of lymphoma? See:
http://www.afip.org/consultation/vetpath/ferrets/PDF/Lymphoma_Ferrets.pdf
Sometimes in challenged animals whose
small intestines are not functioning
fully B12 injections can control diarrhea
but i do not know if lympho will pull
up that nutrient preferentially; some
malignancies do that with some nutrients
and it varies among malignancy types and
nutrient types which is why nutritional
oncology is such a new and still mostly
unstudied field even for humans.
-- Moderator]
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