From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2003-04-19 17:33:54 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: New to the Group
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-Id: <a05210600bac736c5afd5@[10.0.1.5]>
I just approved a post telling about increased liver enzymes in
relation to ECE but am having trouble holding web connections.
Hopefully, my approval of the post went through before the connection
dropped and appears before this post.
Liver enzymes can be increased by any failure to get in or process
enough nutrients. I can't recall the needed pathology address
off-hand but you can link to it at the AFIP site by going to the
Critical References Links at http://www.ferretcongress.org . Just
look for the AFIP site in the section of websites by vets. After you
link to the AFIP site on Pathology of the Ferret open the article
"Confusion and Controversy..." and if you skim down it you will get
to that section.
Yes, ECE does throw off liver enzymes by reducing eating and
interfering with the ability to digest food well enough, but so will
anything else that causes these problems. I suspect that it may just
be that your vet knows this but used wording which could be taken two
ways such as, "Well, the liver enzymes are up, but that is due to the
ECE." Conversation confusion is an easy thing to have happen and
everyone winds up on either side of that sort of thing often enough.