From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-02-13 22:41:27 UTC
Subject: RE: emergency!!
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <8011061.1108334487917.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Like your vet i see no reason to blame the melatonin, but hopefully others with more info will respond.
The fever points to infection.
The thrown off pancreatic response points to the pancreas possibly being infected, inflammed, or altered.
Oh, I just remembered something we encountered here which resulted in infection and an inflammed pancreas and liver: a really bad furball in the stomach.
With these symptoms I wouldn't discount infection of the
pancreas if ferrets do that. Hopefully, someone more knowledgeable will chime in.
Certainly, in humans this combo can be seen: high sugar and thirst of diabetes
(Watch her in case she now has that.) plus an infection. An old human friend
became a diabetic this way -- exact same symptoms -- due to damage to his
pancreas when he had to be hospitalized with an extremely bad influenza which
almost took him decades ago. Basically, I'd be inclined to consider anything which
can raise havoc with the pancreas.