From:
Bruce Williams, DVM
Date: 2001-11-08 23:54:00 UTC
Subject: Re: melatonin
--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "sasi RR" <leelynne2001@y...> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I must say that reading on this forum has really helped me out a
lot.
> But I do have a question with the melatonin.
> Can this just be used to help grow new hair from where hair has
been
> shaved to do some blood work up and where they had to shave it
across
> the chest to drain the fluid off?? Or should one just leave well
> enough alone and let it grow back with out help?
> Were giving our ferret prednisone and clavamox and carafate for
> lymposcarcoma.
Dear Becky - Melatonin will have effects only on animals with hair
loss from adrenal disease - it would not offer significant advantages
in animals where the hair loss was iatrogenic (doctor-induced) in an
animal with normal adrenal function.
With kindest regards,
Bruce Williams, dVM