My 5 year old caught one of our colds about 2 weeks ago, she was doing fine & seemed okay. But the past week she has not been eating her hard food. I started spoon feeding her watered doen canned ferret food. then I started feeding her baby food. She stoped eating from the spoon. The past few days I have been syringe feeding her 90 cc-100 cc a day of baby food & nutrical mix. She has lost weight she went from almost 2 lbs lbs to 1.14lbs. I am very concerned as now she seems very weak and of course has diah. from all the liquid food I have been giving her. I have been syringing her Gatorade & water. I have also been giving her SQ fluids daily, although not alot, maybe 25 cc. At 1st her nose was stuffy & she didn't want to eat but now I am convinced that her throat is hurting her and she does not want to swallow so she wont eat & drink. She was not sick before she caught the cold. I do not know if I can give her any of the pediatric cold meds to make her feel better and help her throat. If anybody has any advice please let me know. I do work at a vet's office and I can get any rx from the doctor to help her. ( he's not ferret knowledgable) thanks ruby [Posted in FML 5428]