I was thinking more along the lines of she ingested a good amount of fluids into the lungs. "Coughed" it out and had the rest swept out. This is basically what is known as a saline lavage. It washes out the lungs of everything (one being surfactant). when surfactent is washed out it basically causes a condition that is similar to emphashyma. Saline lavage is used as a model for emphsyma in animal models, it is terminal and if it does too god of a job washing out the lungs can be terminal in hours. It is a pretty gruesome model causes airways to colapse and reopen and leads to alveolar destruction and thus blood filling of the lungs. Don't think it would be that noticable and that would have been quick. I don't know though just a thought. I did not send out samples from the liver as the lungs where clearly the cause on this one. I still plan to treat some of the other girls with antibiotics just incase it was a RI.
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Derek Affonce

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• update on deceased beardie - grimdog, Wed Sep 3 10:34:48 2003
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