From:
Caitlyn Martin
Date: 2004-03-01 03:31:38 UTC
Subject: Age and adrenal disease ( was: young ferret tail alopecia...)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <20040301033138.54567.qmail@web21407.mail.yahoo.com>
> She is
> two years old. I doubt if she is adrenal because of
> A) her age and B)lack of any other symptoms.
Let me preface this by saying that hair loss on the
tail -ONLY- usually does not mean adrenal.
Her age, OTOH, is no reason to discount adrenal
disease. Pertwee began showing adrenal symptoms at
age one, Ker Avon at one and a half. Both had
surgeries at one and a half years old. Avon had a
left adrenal tumor, an adenoma (sp?), while Pertwee
had first a left adrenal carcinoma and then a right,
all before age two.
Our vet has seen adrenal disease and removed adrenal
tumors from ferrets as young as nine months old.
All the best,
Caity
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