http://www.smartgroups.com/message/readmessage.cfm?gid=1423922&messageid=3582 Author wrote: >I'm usualy asking about my Ernestine but this time it's Jesse. Ok we >were out of electric for 12 after a ice storm hit so we had to use a >kerosene heater well I tryed to keep them covered and away from the >fumes so they wouldn't get sick well after we got our electric back on >it was the same night Jesse started coughing so I took him on the 4th >to see the vet she gave him AMX Drops, she said his heart and lungs >sounded good but incase of infection starting she gave the meds. well >he coughed that night then on the 7th and then again on the 10th but on >the 4th and 7th he coughed in the early morning and got me up but he >only got me up once coughing those nights and on the 10 in the weeeee >hrs of the morning he got me up twice with the coughing. > >what can I do for him hes the only one out of 6 thats coughing? I have >to call the vet tomarrow about what else to do But I can use some help >so I can give her some other ideas. Thank you Well, this pattern is a bit unusual - very intermittent coughing.. Even though the heart and lungs sound good, I have been fooled many times by good sounds but when you take an X-ray, the chest looks terrible. Probably always a good idea to get a radiograph of the chest of a coughing animal. Heart disease is by far the most common cause of coughing in ferrets. With kindest regards, Bruce Williams, DVM [Posted in FML issue 4084]