From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2004-08-18 16:12:18 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] Insulinoma treatment & medication amounts HELP!
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <1534757.1092845538931.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
The accounts I have read of Devils Club Supreme have been mixed. For some it appears to work very well, but I've also read of ones for whom the blood glucose levels reduced after use, so if you try it do so at the vet's office. It may turn out to be useful for your little one, but with someone who is so tricky playing it safe really makes sense for when you test it in her. In your shoes, and since it has worked for some I think I'd discuss an in-hospital test of it with the vet.
Here are two places with past posts on this topic:
http://listserv.cuny.edu/archives/ferret-search.html
and
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org
We had a little girl who had lymphoma in her pancreas who was very hard to control I guess about 15 or more years ago. For her we used Prednisolone, Diazoxide (Back then for part of her remaining life it could only be gotten as human hospital dregs for a teaching hospital because it was too new.) and sugar provided around the clock to her. The best way to get the sugars into her back then was to use forks to mix Nutrical with water and then skim off the oil film when it developed. Without her dietary sugars she would have died; with that routine, though, she got 9 months of decent life before her malignancy had advanced too far.
BTW, is it possible for two of you to take her to the vet, or for you to pull off the road a few times, so that she can get dietary sugars to hold her for the long road trip to the vet?