On October 7, Judith White wrote:
>Has anyone had experience with this ailment?  Apparently it is somewhat
>rare.  Kermit is still not doing too well, eating only Timmy's Recipe and
>Deliver.
 
Several years ago, our male ferret Nolan was diagnosed with eosinophillic
enteritis.  He had become listless, wouldn't eat, and vomited what he did
eat.
 
Our vet put him on a treatment consisting of 1/4 of a 5mg. prednisone
tablet twice daily for five days, then once a day for 5 days, then every
other day.  This was combined with a 0.2mg.  Ivermectin injection at the
initial treatment and again two weeks later.
 
This treatment seemed to work well, and Nolan made a complete recovery.
BTW, diagnosis was through exploratory surgury.
 
Let me know how things turn out.
 
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Randy A. Brown
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Iowa State University
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[Posted in FML issue 2093]