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From: my4ferrets@cs.com
Date: 2001-03-26 08:40:00 UTC
Subject: Re: [Ferret-Health-list] Digest Number 88

I used saw palmetto on my 12 year old Taz for prostate enlargement. It worked great. Taz weighed about 2 pounds. I mixed one 80mg capsule of the powder to 20ml water and gave him .35cc's 3-4 times a day.

Lynne

> Message: 20
> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 20:13:40 -0800 (PST)
> From: Carla Christman <sebestianpup@y...>
> Subject: Saw Palmetto
>
> Has anyone tried the herb Saw Palmetto in place of
> Propecia? The herbal PDR listed some positive
> statements that the two performed equally in a trial
> on humans. If so, what dosage? We are thinking of
> trying it on a prostatic cyst (with NO blockage) boy
> that is currently on propecia. Saw Palmetto is
> considerable less expensive for the shelter to
> purchase.
>
> Thanks,
> Carla Christman, DVM
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> Message: 21
> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 22:21:05 -0800 (PST)
> From: JTRADFORD@w...
> Subject: Bruiser,Again...Dr Williams,SORRY!
>
> Hi again!
> Poops are NOW yellowish/green....what's up with that?? He just ate 3/4th
> jar Gerbers.ONLY,tho off the "back" of a plastic spoon,no other way!
> haha! Then I gave him 30cc's of pedialite....STILL going to the
> Vet,tomorrow.Will be taking a stool sample.Do you think he's in pain? I
> still have lots of pain meds.
> So sorry,but crazy Tara is a stressed out wreck again.....He IS my
> baby,even tho he may be 4 or 5...
> ps...his gums & pads of feet are darker reddish than before.....mean
> anything??
> Thanks!
> Love,
> Tara
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> Message: 22
> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:36:56 +0200
> From: "Sidsel L. Espersen" <ferret@w...>
> Subject: Need Help!!! How to keep 64 hours old kits alive.
>
> Okay, I thought I would have joyeus news, that my new kit was born, well he
> is born, but this morning my friend found 4 dead kits in the nursery cage.
> They were still warm and she had not cannablized them, my friend thinks they
> may have suffocated beneath the mother.
>
> Now 3 kits remain, and must be fed every two hours.
>
> Does anyone have any good advice? Our vet is stopping by later, but what
> should she do in the mean time? She's keeping them warm and she's feeding
> them. (A kitten milk substitute "Kit-I-Mel")
>
> They have had the first milk, and they looked very healthy, they were
> growing and looking great, but it seems as if the jill has stopped
> lactating, the tits has decreased in size since she had the kits.
>
> Sorry to bring such bad news! :(
>
> - Sidsel
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