From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2004-12-30 21:13:05 UTC
Subject: RE: ferretone
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <2752393.1104441185311.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Well, my post just got a private note about someone who has a ferret with what may be nutritional steatitis as per her comments on the what the vet is considering for a diagnosis, so here is the treatment taken from Fox's vet texts to have here and in the archives:
Nutritional Steatitis (Yellow Fat Disease: That is from too much oil marine fish or from too much polyunsaturated oil. Affected animals need to be injected with 10 IU vitamin E daily for 2 days, then add 30 mg (30 IU) by diet for 10 days, then 15 mg for 5 days more, and finally 10 mg. day afterward for maintenance.
>Polyunsaturated oils given in too large amounts without enough added Vitamin E >also given will cause Nutritional Steatitis (Yellow Fat Disease) in ferrets. It's more >often seen in those fed high amounts of certain fatty marine fish. For more >information see pages 166 and 167 of _Biology and Diseases of the Ferret, vol.2_ ...
>http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org