A lil' bit urgent problem

[nancyl]

It won't be. Chorionic gonadotropin is produced by the placenta. No placenta, no hormone.

[Deleted]

That's brillant.

I don't know how many false results are reported. I wonder if it's different with each brand of test.

I did find this:
www.pregnancylab.net/2011/01/false-positive-urine-pregnancy-test-results.html

[nancyl]

It's also unlikely that a pregnancy test for human females will work with ferrets. The antibodies in the stick are species specific I believe. I should read the package insert next time I'm at work.

[unclejoe]

May 26, 2015 14:39:23 GMT -5 nancyl said:

It won't be. Chorionic gonadotropin is produced by the placenta. No placenta, no hormone.

absolutely right.  I'm 4 years out of anatomy class.  I only had human anatomy.  Is a hormone a hormone, no matter the species?  I'm pretty sure the melatonin we buy otc is from sheep...

[crazylady]

lol see what started off as a crazy suggestion made in fun has you all thinking lol maybe we have the beginning of a ferret pregnancy testing wizard on the board lol it would be a pretty useful tool for breeders if it could be made possible lol ( send me a few doz sticks lol ) take care bye for now
bev

[Deleted]

UPDATE: So the hemoleucogram results came today, and they showed some anemia (but not life threatening), severe infection and inflamation. So it was quite clearly pyometra, so I decided to open her to see what i find.

And guess what ...it was indeed pyometra, even if she didn't had all the normal signs (no polydipsia, no polyfagia, no apatia, no fever ) just vaginal discharge. Luckily the uterus looked bad, but it could've looked much worse (I've seen pyos where the uterine wall was so thin you could've seen through it ).

I took one of my male ferrets with me as a blood donor just in case it was needed ( male ferrets are a life saver when you need blood), but it wasn't neccessary

Some pics :

[Deleted]

I'm so glad to hear that you found some answers.
How is she doing, now that she is recovering from her surgery?

Everyone has been so concerned, Thank you for updating us and please give her my wishes for a speed, healthy recovery.

[FireAngel]

So glad you found an answer and helped her in time! Quick healing to her!

[acodlin]

I hope she is on the road to recovery now!

[Heather]

I'm glad that you've managed to treat her She's doing ok?
ciao

[Deleted]

Yeah she is ok She doesn't even seem to notice the incision She plays, eats, drinks like nothing ever happened. My other ferrets, after they had any surgery, they were sleepy for at least 24 hours, but she has absolutely nothing

[Heather]

She's a funny little thing Nothing phases her. Deadly pyometra...eat and act like nothing is happening. Get spayed, bounce and don't care. She's a love
ciao

[Deleted]

Yeah, she even scared me. 4 hours after the surgery she was bouncing and jumping, and i was like : What the h*ll ? You must stay still so you can heal properly !

[Deleted]

Funny thing is, that every time we got a new ferret, it took some while to introduce him to the other ferrets cuz they were aggressive towards him. With her things are totally different. We kept her away from the other ferrets until now ( because we thought she was pregnant and now because she is post-op). But she craves after their affection, and they crave after her affection, even though they only had the chance to smell each other through the cage bars 3 or 4 times.
She is constantly escaping from her cage to go and play with them and sleep in their cage. And they are desparate to enter in the room where she is kept.
I don't want to let her with the other ferrets for at least 4-5 more days because they are way bigger than her ( she is just 500 g, on the biggest male is 2,5kg ) and if they play more roughly she could get hurt ( in means of stiches falling off ), but she is quite unhappy alone and she wants to stay with the others.

[Deleted]

oh my! Will have to look up that P word -----have no clue what it is. 

Glad she is feeling great!