From:
"Sue Liszewski"
Date: 2005-05-27 16:39:19 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] Yellow ferret
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <BAY104-F2936174F03368ABBC357C1DC000@phx.gbl>
This may be true with reference to the hair coat but not the skin the urine
etc. This can be a life threatening condition and bloodwork is not the
answer to everything. Just because there is nothing wrong in the lab work
doesn't mean there is not a problem. Part of it depends on the tests run
etc. I would be very careful giving advice out like this because you could
inadvertantly lead someone to never worry and then lose their ferret, how
would tha make you feel.
I caution everone on the statements made here. Please always be smart and
trust your instincts too. This is NOT NORMAL. Haircoats maybe but that's
where that ends.
Sorry if I am being blunt but this whole post scares the *#@*$* out of me!
Dr. Sue
>From: "Montgomery, Vicki E" <Vicki.E.Montgomery@Williams.com>
>Reply-To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>To: <ferrethealth@smartgroups.com>
>Subject: [ferrethealth] Yellow ferret
>Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 08:41:19 -0500
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>I'm not sure what the vet hopes to accomplish with sunlight other than
>possibly he wants to bleach her.... Ultraviolet rays from the sun both
>sterilize and bleach... and vitamin D is absorbed from sunlight...
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>but moving right along, Medication, well drugs of any sort, even vitamins
>and minerals from food will leech out through the hair shafts on any
>animal.. That's how 'they" can tell if you've injested any drugs, which
>ones, and how long ago...
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>It could be that the meds from the surgery are leeching through the medula
>and staining the cuticle or maybe pigment from the drugs is lodging in the
>cortex (in which case the sun used for bleaching will work to some extent),
>and it could be that the liver was irritated or injured during surgery (in
>this case there might well be green urine to go along with yellow
>jaundice), and it could be that white ferrets just turn yellow sometimes...
>I have yet to hear a vet be able to explain why, but they never seem
>concerned about it... and my admiration to you guys if you have white
>ferrets that stay white...
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>With as many whites as I've had turn yellow in spots, patches and all over
>I'd say don't worry about this. If the vet has checked blood levels, and
>palpated organ tissues (to some extent given she just has major surgery),
>muscles and bones, and is satisfied that medically all is well or at least
>not injured or ill, then OK... relax.. don't worry, be happy... and in a
>few weeks your friend can go back to wrestling with her fuzzy. ;-]
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>But this would be a great research project -- it would be good if ferreters
>could collect blood and hair clipping specimens from all over WHEN A WHITE
>FERRET TURNS YELLOW, and again when and if he/she returns to all white...
>then compare the levels to look for whatever that might be low or elevated
>etc... sigh..
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>Well good luck...
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