Hi All -- Got a question for everyone who has had experience with ECE. Last summer, we had a bout of ECE in our house. We lost our oldest ferret, Roo. The time that it was brought on was when a major heat wave came through. at that time, we moved them to a friends apartment (who had A/C). Now, we just had a major heat flux (from the 60's one day to hot and humid in the 80's/90's the next). We have the A/C going, but they all have gotten bad diarreha again (with greenish mucus). Fred was the first to get it and went to the vet on Saturday morning. we have been giving him duck soup and pedialyte. he seems to get better, but the others are getting worse (and Boing is the worst to get to eat (thus, mainly pedialyte is getting into her)). With this recent bout, I am wondering if the heat could be the cause (yes, it is a stressor, but could it be that bad?), and even if it is ECE. They don't seem to want to eat, and I had thought that they would not be getting it anymore (it has been 10 months since their last bout). Also, our usual vet has left the practice, and some new person is there, but not concerned about them (just diarreha to her). Any help would be appreciated. Currently, they are all getting Amoxy and Amforal (sp? -- the yellow stuff for runny poo). Also, they are getting pedialyte and duck soup/sludge :) 3 times a day. Thanks a lot, Susan the wonderful ferts who seem to be feisty enough to spit food/meds on me Astro (the greyhound who gets upset when the ferts are upset) -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Susan A. H. Benysh With Ferrets ____ /^.__ Human Factors Engineer Sparky, Boing, / \_/ __/~ [log in to unmask] & Freddie \\\\/ _--_ / attempting higher education With Greyhound ////\_ \_ at Purdue University Astro West Lafayette, Indiana, USA (1 hour north of Indianapolis) -or- ( 51,789,056,027 ferret steps) http://palette.ecn.purdue.edu/~hodapp/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [Posted in FML issue 1576]