Message Number: SG12041 | New FHL Archives Search
From: sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2004-12-30 21:26:52 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Ferret with probable tumors
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <5152164.1104442012956.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

I hadn't heard of Essiac doing that.

Pau d-arco certainly has that risk:
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=SG964

Author wrote:
> BUT in our older fererts already prone to insulinoma / pancreatic problems
> Essiac has a tendency to lower BG--- that is not something we felt was a

Like you we typically prefer Prednisolone, supportive care, and pain control. If we instead had one in the prime of life with lymphoma, though, I think we might try chemo, esp. one of the newer approaches mentioned on-list in the last few months (and which can be found in the archives at
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org