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Ferret with cysts next to her intestines?

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hi all

im looking for advice and information.

Lucy was taken into the vets in the week as her belly was swollen up

like a balloon, when the vets looked at her she said she could feel

some lumps and wanted to open her up the next day, she didnt want to do

xrays as it would only tell what she already new

so we took lucy in in the morning for her op. when they opened her up

they found three large cysts full of pink milky liquid next to her

intestines, which they drained.

her spleen looked a bit enlarged and her liver is patchy and pale.

samples of the fluid and the cyst have been sent of and a blood test

to check her liver, kidneys and red/white blood cells

the blood work has come back as normal apart from showing lucy is a

bit anemic

but we are still waiting for the other test to come back, lucy is

starting to swell up again and im worried silly

has any come across or heard about this before as my vet has nether

seen anything like this before

thanks leah

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  2. I rather think you'll have to wait for the tests. One possibility, as ferrets are carnivores, is that Lucy has ingested the eggs of parasitic worms (particularly Echinococcus tapeworms). Hydatid cysts can be very large.

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