From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2002-04-21 10:13:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Digest Number 699: insulinoma vs. diabetes
>ferrets acquire insulinoma and it is not like diabetes in humans.
While insulinoma is much more common in ferrets, there are ferrets
with diabetes. Yes, insulinoma the blood sugar winds up too low due
to too much insulin and in diabetes the blood sugar is too high due
to too little insulin.
There is information on diabetes that can be found using the search
engine here at the website. Just remember that it searches in chunks
so expect to hit "Next" a number of times as it goes back through the
posts.
Diabetes is harder to control in ferrets.