From:
"Sue Liszewski"
Date: 2004-07-18 20:39:51 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] insulinoma? Or me being to worried?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <BAY15-F265SAsOO18F900046edc@hotmail.com>
If you do a non fasting glucose and it is below 70 that is enough because
they need to keep their sugar higher when they have food coming in and even
if 70 is considered normal it is not with a non fasting test. The behavior
signs, genearlly some insulinomics only have lethargy. I sometimes match
numbers with how the ferret is acting, your guy is tired and lethatgic, if
you start Pred and he becomes more active that is enough for me to say this
is insulinoma. Each case is individual and there is no point in waiting for
the worst possible signs. Hope this clears things up.
Dr. Sue
>From: iceddragon@pandora.be
>Reply-To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] insulinoma? Or me being to worried?
>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 08:28:25 +0100 (BST)
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>thanks Dr. Sue!
>Where can I find what the normal non fasting blood glucose should be? And
>how low is 'low enough' to be an indication for insulinoma?
>Also what exactly do you mean by seeing how she acts on prednisolone?
>Measuring her blood glucose again or just seeing what her behaviour is
>like? (she doesn't really show the typical symptoms of insulinoma (yet)
>although she is more sleepy than she used to be... (but then again she's 6
>years old)
>
>Thanks again!
>Tine
>
>Author wrote:
> > 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
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