From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2004-06-12 02:56:42 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: dizzy ferret
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <3684334.1087009002218.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
> that the syrup (I used honey) should only be used in emergencies. It brings
> the blood sugar back up, but if used too often at the slightest sign of a
> problem it also stimulates insulin production, and of coarse it's the
> overproduction of insulin from the diseased pancreas that's the culprit
> in the first place.
Initially, that is the case.
Later, when teh disease is advanced and the meds have maxed out then dietary sugars can be added again. We had one little girl get an extra good three months using this trick. The thing is that by then the normal responses to blood sugar levels aren't there. The insulinoma growths themselves are not responsive to blood glucose; they just pump out insulin no matter what. At the same time they tend to cause health pancreatic tissue to stop responding (because the insulin levels are so high) and they replace the healthy tissue.