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  • Members: 1564
  • Category: Ferrets
  • Founded: Mar 29, 2006
  • Language: English
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Welcome to the Ferret Health List

Whether you are a new member or a long-time member following the FHL from SmartGroups, welcome! All of the files, photos, and links from SmartGroups have been migrated here, and our archive contains all our messages from the beginning.

Take a look at the photo of Beasley, to the right. Notice the puffiness around his neck? The immediate concern with this appearance is swollen lymph nodes.

Beasley was fortunate; the large deposits in his neck were only fat. That is something ferrets do at times which surprises some vets who are not used to ferrets. Some other ferrets will have hard ball-like structures --kind of like marbles -- in that same position. That alternative type of swelling happens when the lymph nodes are enlarged. Infection can create swollen lymph nodes, but so can lymphoma.

When that type of swelling happens it pays to either have a node removed for biopsy or to have an aspirate taken from the node. Removal is harder but much more accurate. Either approach can prove very useful.


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[Smallest bitter taste receptor (T2Rs) gene... [Dongwuxue Yanjiu. 20
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23776004 Dongwuxue Yanjiu. 2013 Jun 8;34(3):E75-81. [Smallest bitter taste receptor (T2Rs) gene repertoire in carnivores].
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MRI-based morphometric characterizations of sexua... [Neuroimage. 20
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23770407 Quoted abstract Neuroimage. 2013 Jun 13. pii: S1053-8119(13)00661-7. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.06.024. [Epub
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Reduced subventricular zone proliferation and whi... [Exp Neurol. 20
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23769908 Not one most people will want to see, but if a vet needs to treat any ferret kits with hydroencephalis it may
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Sukie Crandall
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Baking soda
My experience with Marshall's ferret tooth cleaning gel with baking soda was interesting some years ago. I put a dab out on a saucer to rub the little
Posted - Wed Jun 19, 2013 11:38 am
Carol J Owens
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Re: Intestinal Lymphoma
Andrea what exactly do you mean as far as "chemo" for the GI lymphoma? Skyla Sent from my iPhone
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