To the resident Vets:
 
Our ferret Bambi, a three year old female, last week developed jaundice.  We
took her to our vet and his diagnosis was a disfunction of the liver.  He
did blood work and urinalysis and prescribed the following medications.
 
Baytril  22.7 mg   1/4 tablet twice a day
APO-Prednisone  5mg  1/4 tablet once a day
Low protein feed, and 1/4 Felo-bit vitamin tablet once daily
 
Her skin tone has become very yellow, and although she is still  active and
eating and drinking normally, she is urinating very frequently and in large
amounts.
 
We are following this regimen faithfully and are hoping for the best.  Our
only questions are, is this a common problem that you have dealt with before
and, do you have any further ideas as to what we could do to help in this
situation.  Any comments would be much appreciated as we are really
distraught and are looking for any help we can get.
 
    Thanks in Advance
 
The results of her blood work are as follows:
 
Biochemistry
 
comments on sample-Icteric
all values in International (metric) units
 
 
A/G ratio        .5
Albumin         20
Alk. Phos.     930
ALT           1604
Amylase         14
AST            235
Bilirubin T.   559
Bilirubin C.   378
Bilirubin Free 181
Calcium          2.16
Chloride       105
Cholesterol     10.4
CK             210
Creatinine        '
Glucose          4.5
Phosphorus       2.02
Potassium        4.3
Protein (serum) 59
Sodium         145
Urea             9.3
Gamma GT       229
 
Hematology
 
WBC              8.0
RBC              8.50
Hemoglobin     140
PCV              0.45
MCV             52
 
        Differential  %
 
Neutrophils        56.0
Lymphocytes        33.0
Monocytes           1.0
Eocinophils        10.0
 
        RBC Morphology
 
Target Cells            occ.
 
Platelet Estimate       normal
Shift Platelets         -ve
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[Posted in FML issue 1542]