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sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-04-07 22:56:28 UTC
Subject: RE: Liquid Melantonin
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <669840.1112914588590.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
I'd like to remind people that the CURRENT ISSUE of Ferrets Magazine (Ours just arrived today) includes a marvelous article on melatonin by Dr. Jerry Murray, complete with useful side panels on froms of melatonin (and doses), drugs to avoid, and treatment options (Suprelorin which isn't yet approved for use in the U.S. is not there,but that is a drug which I hope we will be getting here in the future.).
I think they must have run out of space because there was not mention that melatonin also helps decrease FSH levels. High FSH levels are implicated as a cause of osteoporosis, a problem mentioned in conjuntion with ferrets who had adrenal disease (which itself is connected to high LH levels from too little melatonin0 so the two may have different causes but those two causes may share the same root cause: too much light exposure causing too little melatonin production. In other words, providing a melatonin supply (like getting an inexpensive implant 3 or 4 times a year may also be good for a ferret's skeleton.
There is also a fine read on from Dr. Rosenthal on Immune Mediated Hemolytic Anemia (though I wish more treatment info had been given), the IFC's education work, and more.
Don;t miss that melatonin