| Clinical
signs� |
Differential
diagnosis |
| Alopecia |
Dietary fat deficiency and hypovitaminosis
Low protein diet Genetic hairlessness Demodectic mange Adrenocortical neoplasia
(hyperestrinism) Scalding (urineammonia) Chronic disease Hypothyroidism
Amyloidosis� |
| �Conjunctivitis |
Bacterial Foreign body Trauma
LCM |
| Dermatitis |
Ectoparasitism Demodex aurati
Demodex criceti Demodex is secondary to immunosuppression. Flea Bite wounds
Bacterial dermatitis Scalding (urineammonia) Wet bedding� |
| �Diarrhea / rectal prolapse�
(wet tail)� |
�Proliferative ileitis(Campylobacter
, Desulfovibrio , Chlamydia like organism) Enteropathies Colibacillosis
Tyzzer�s disease Cestodiasis Antibiotic toxicity� |
| Incoordination/convulsion |
Trauma("dropped/squeezed hamster")
Encephalitis LCM� Lead poisoning |
| � Infertility� |
Immaturity or senescence Nutritional
deficiencies Environmental stress Pyometra Incompatible pairs Seasonal
phenomenon |
| �Litter desertion or cannibalism |
Environmental disturbance Maternal
inexperience Mastitis Agalactia Reduced food/water intake Young on wire
cagging |
| Malocclusion� |
�Genetics Trauma Tooth abscess� |
| �Melena� |
�Gastric ulcer� |
| �Nasal discharge / dyspnea |
Rhinitis (dust , irritants substrate)
Pneumonia Heat stress (serous discharge) Sendai virus infection (parainfluenza
typr I)� |
| Polydipsia , polyuria |
Cystic renal disease Renal amyloidosis� |
| Prenatal mortalities� |
Nutritional deficiency Infectious
disease Environmental disease Large litter |
| �Swelling (cutaneous , subcutaneous) |
Cheek pouch:abscess ,food impaction
, neoplasia Abscess Arthritis(over joint) Infection Normal pregnancy Testicles
Mastitis Neoplasia Cuterebriasis Organomegaly (polycystic disease)� |
| �Torticollis� |
Otitis externa Encephalitis LCM
Trauma� |
| Sudden death� (owner may
not have noticed symptoms) |
�Stravation or dehydration
Septicemia or toxemia� Chilling or overheating Chronic disease Litter
abandoned Amyloidosis Congenital abnormalities Antibiotic toxicity Poisoning
Cardiomyopathy/atherosclerosis Sendai virus� |
| Weight loss |
Malocclusion Chronic disease
Nephrosis Hepatic cirrhosis Neoplasia Nutrition deficiency Gastric trichobezoar,foreign
bodies Parasitism� |
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