From:
B STEELMAN
Date: 2004-12-01 13:11:50 UTC
Subject: melatonin reaction
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <20041201131150.24080.qmail@web81009.mail.yahoo.com>
The ferrets didn't get into anything. There was no accidental poisoning by household contaminants. There was much more to the confirmation that the melatonin was the cause than we had time or space to go into yesterday and today, here. What I posted yesterday was horrendous enough without going through the rest of the details which are worse and graphic.
Since I had used melatonin for years, as I stated, I was frantic. The bottle was returned to the manufacturer to be testing for tampering.
What I am looking for remains the same. Legitimate, documented studies, done by researchers, vets and/or other qualified professionals on the use of melatonin in ferrets.
I know it has been used for years on ferrets, even longer on minks, but it's use didn't just come up randomly, someone had to have studied the idea and there is bound to be information on it.
Unless I can find that quality of info, I am going to be too afraid to try it again, and there is absolutely no way my vet ever will with out some cold, hard, verifiable, research/facts.
I am hoping someone here can point me in that direction.
Sorry, don't mean to be causing a panic, that's not why I wrote. I just want it understood why antidote evidence is not going to be sufficient in this case. Neither of us ever wants to go through anything like that again.