Message Number: SG13404 | New FHL Archives Search
From: sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-04-10 00:38:32 UTC
Subject: RE: Glaucoma? Or? Cookie followup
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <6794170.1113093512818.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

Thre are 64 messages on glaucoma in ferrets in the FHL Archives at
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org

Here are a few which should be of interest:

>Timolol and Pilocarpine. It is a rigorous
>dosing schedule... one drop each eye, 5 times a day
which is a recent post in
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=SG11175

Tips to help blind ferrets navigate:
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=SG10163

Testing and more:
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=SG9605

An alternative cause (a type of neoplasia):
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=SG3865

Steroids are a concern in humans with hypertensive glaucoma:
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=SG1953

With detached lenses:
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=SG1937

>From 2001 with a lot of info:
http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=YG125

It just hit me. When Dad began having his glaucoma take off he began having depigment speckles and splotches (though usually at the edges (and that debris can cause blockages there so is among the causes of glaucoma as can be other things like the eyeball shape of extreme myopia). I wonder if another discussion -- that one on speckled eyes may involve areas which once had but then lost the pigmentationand if so if these ferrets need to be watched for a possible increased vulnerability for glaucoma.