From:
cyprus4211@aol.com
Date: 2004-10-04 21:03:03 UTC
Subject: RE: End Stage Insulinoma? Dietary Sugars? long post
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <160269.1096923783334.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Does that seem to hold them for a while? I wish I could stop the meds because of the weight gain, but then I wouldn't get any sleep! I go to bed early, someone else feeds him, then he can go about 3 hours without food. Then I get up at 3am and feed him, then every hour and a half after that. It's easy during the day because there is almost always someone home. Do mix the Nutrical with just water of duck soup? I'm just wondering about the taste, he only seems to like tropical fruit. I should never have let him get so spoiled, now I have to weight on him hand and foot. Everytime he goes to the bathroom he bangs his cage so I'll come out and wipe him! He's so fat he gets it on his stomach.
Author wrote:
> One thing we used to have around all the time for those whose meds were no longer enough -- when we had to begin adding dietary sugars, too -- is what we call "Nutrical Soup". Mix Nutrical with water and then let it sit till you can remove the film that develops (which they seem to hate on their whiskers). Replace several times a day. (The easiest way to mix the Nutrical with water that we have found is to use two forks.)
> Pred tends to contribute to weight gain so it's a Catch 22 situation, I'm afraid, because the Pred is needed.