From:
sukiecrandall@telocity.com
Date: 2002-08-04 19:06:17 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Re: Kodi and adrenal tx
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <15685602.1028487977989.JavaMail.root@scandium>
> Omigosh.... Am I reading this right? Are people (including a vet)
> advocating removing both adrenal glands even when only one is diseased?
> Please tell me it isn't so.
It is not so:
Please, see post # 569.
Here is what vet, Jerry Murray wrote and hoepfully quoting him will prevent this from causing more confusion:
Hi Mokodi,
Hopefully this one will go thru.
The left adrenal gland gland is usually good news (despite
the bad pathology report) because it can usually be removed
completely. Now to answer the other part of your question: what
can be done to prevent this from happening on Kodi's right adrenal gland.
There are 3 basic options to treat/or prevent the stimulation to the
adrenal gland(s). 1) is Lupron depot, 2) is melatonin (pills, liquid, or
the mink implant), 3) is to keep your ferret in a dark room for
14 hours a day (ie winter like light condition). These are the options
to consider and to talk over with your vet.
Hope that helps,
Jerry Murray, DVM
Dallas, TX.
PS in my practice both adrenal glands usually end up being a problem
and the right adrenal gland is harder that the left to remove completely.
That is why I would seriously consider treating to prevent the problem
from developing on the right side.
As you see what he advises are medical options and/or darkness.
Steve and I use darkness as just a normal matter of routine here: night covers and very dark places to go in play periods. We have had only a very few ferrets wind up with both glands involved, we have had only one early one, and we have had only a very few wind up with any adrenal malignancies, though the numbers of one benign adrenal neoplasm don't seem to have changed here, with about half still getting them at any time.
Please, re-read above what vet, Jerry Murray wrote.