From:
Ferrethealer@aol.com
Date: 2004-12-02 04:09:43 UTC
Subject: Re Melatonin fears Re: [ferrethealth] Digest 1 Dec 2004 13:11:57 -0000 Issue 853
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <a9.67d7d74e.2edfef87@aol.com>
In a message dated 12/01/04 8:12:52 AM Eastern Standard Time,
ferrethealth-digest-help@smartgroups.com writes:
Then exactly a year ago, the brand of melatonin I had
been using became unavailable locally. Without thinking too much of it, I
picked up
a different brand in a large retail chain drug store. That lapse of thought
ultimately
cost the lives of four of my 'children'.
I am so sorry that this happened to your ferrets - however, I think Sukie
nailed this one on the head. It is incredibly unlikely for this to have been due
to the melatonin itself. There has to have been something wrong either with
the manufacturing and purification process (which sadly, does happen) or with
that particular bottle having been adulterated. Or, potentially, that there
was something else that the ferrets got into without your knowledge.
Melatonin in and of itself is very, very safe.
Dr. Ruth
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