From:
jedball@hotmail.com
Date: 2003-04-15 03:32:02 UTC
Subject: vomiting ferret with dangerously low blood sugar (like 29)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <22247346.1050377522656.JavaMail.root@scandium>
Sparky and her playmate were being their usual playful, fun selves when all of a sudden, Sparky vomited. At first I thought it was just excitement but then she did it again. Took her right to the vet where he did a blood sugar test on her and her sugar was at something dangerously low like 29. But her vet was baffled because she was very energetic and didn't act like a sick ferret. We rechecked a blood sugar after 5 days and it was still very low, 30 I think.
So even though she acts fine, he thinks she has some sort of pancreatic cancer.
Why would the vet think that? It sounds insulinomic to me.