From:
"Sue Liszewski"
Date: 2004-07-17 16:30:26 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] insulinoma? Or me being to worried?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <BAY15-F72ufyWOxbCJn00021ff4@hotmail.com>
Yes the glucose is low and I would suspect isulinoma. I would check a
nonfasting blood glucose too if this is also low it would be enough to say
that insulinoma is a strong probability. Then you can start to treat with
prednisolone and see how she acts and this can give you more info too. You
could do an insulin level but it may not be necessary. See how things go.
Best of luck to you.
Dr. Sue
>From: iceddragon@pandora.be
>Reply-To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>Subject: [ferrethealth] insulinoma? Or me being to worried?
>Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 15:35:47 +0100 (BST)
>
>Hi,Let me start by saying that I'm from Belgium, Europe and my regular vet
>is a good vet, but not a ferret-specialist.Wednesday she drew blood from my
>two oldest ferrets and I received the results today. These are the results
>from the oldest, female, neutered, 6 years old:glucose (sober) 45
>mg/dlTotal Protein 7,9 g/dlUreum 54,6 mg/dlCreatinin
>34,47 micromol/lGOT (AST) 143 U/lGPT (ALT) 116 U/lALK. PHOS.
> 20 U/lBILE ACIDS 7 micromol/l (sorry, I don't know if I translate
>this right)LIPASE 51 U/lCORTISOL 117 nmol/lMy vet said most
>of things were fine, some things were a bit on the high side (like the
>liver-enzymes) but nothing alarming.I have a medical training myself though
>and I try to keep up with the ferret stuff so an alarm bell went ringing in
>my head when I saw that her glucose was this low... I asked about it and
>she said that it was indeed a bit low, but again, not alarming... She
>blamed it on the fact that she had been sober for more than 4 hours. (I
>took away their food at about 7am, the blood was drawn almost 5 hours
>later, but since they were asleep when I took their food, I don't know
>exactly how long they were sober). Could this really be the explanation
>for her glucose being thís low?I also searched for it in the 2nd edition of
>Ferrets, Rabbits and Rodents by Quesenberry et al. and they also suggest a
>normal blood glcuose level of 62,5-134 mg/dl (in fitch ferrets, which she
>is). What do you think of her blood analysis? What do the vets think?I get
>the feeling that my vet is comparing to much with dogs... Thanks in
>advance! TinePS: sorry if I make mistakes, english is not my mother
>tongue[Moderator's Note: in this use the word "sober" appears to refer to
>not having partaken of food or fluids, rather than the more common U.S.
>everyday useage for not having partaken in alcoholic beverages. Your
>English is marvelous, by the way.]
>
>
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