To Amy:
 
>help!!!!  my poor baby has cysts under the eye and it began bleeding today.
>they are little red things under the eye and it openned and it started to
>bleed...
 
    Eye problems are not very common in ferrets.  It would helpp to know how
old your ferret it - is he(she?) a true baby or an adult?  In that location
I have seen several tooth root infections which ruptured through the jawbone
and skin (sounds more serious than it is, but required pulling the tooth.
The skinunder the eye can also be the site of a small skin tumor which might
bleed, or an area of trauma.  Is the eye itself involved, or is it simply
the haired skin around the eye?
 
Bruce Williams, DVM, DACVP
Dept. of Vet Path, AFIP
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Chief Pathologist, AccuPath
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[Posted in FML issue 1362]