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From: Nanny
Date: 2005-06-22 16:14:14 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Hind legs paralysis? Help needed.
To: <ferrethealth@smartgroups.com>
Message-ID: <00f201c57745$6fc753b0$1f614451@UW9067B2DD0C4C>

I just got the results of my Carmels blood test today, he also has hind end
weakness, and he appears to have insulinoma. So let your vet do a glucose
test as soon as possible.

Nanny

----- Original Message -----
From: <alessandrocalligaris@libero.it>
To: <ferrethealth@smartgroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 2:05 PM

> Hi to all from Italy,
>
> two days ago I realized that my 5 year old male (Tobia) didn't move hind
> legs in a normal manner: sometimes keeping them slightly open and
> sometimes, while walking, the legs - the left one more that the right
> one - just didn't sustain him and slip aside. Yesterday I took him to the
> vet., who made an injection of cortisone. The hypotesis is of an
> inflammation of the nerves on the backside (sorry for my broken english).
> I'll take Tobia back to the vet. on Friday.
>
> I heard and read quite a lot of stories about hind legs paralysis in
> ferrets: does anybody know how to fight/prevent it, or which are the most
> useful clinical analysis?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Alessandro.
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