Message Number: SG15047 | New FHL Archives Search
From: sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-08-16 18:40:30 UTC
Subject: RE: ferret health and weird habit
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <8357018.1124217631002.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

Those are not unusual behaviors for untreated adrenal disease. This ferret needs medical care if surgical care isn't possible, please.

If the vet feels unable to do surgery on even the mast cell tumor then that particular vet isn't going to operate for the adrenal growth or the insulinoma, so you need to treat for the adrenal growth, too, instead of just for the insulinoma (and BTW there is also another med that later may help with the insulinoma).

You need to read about Lupron Depot (or in Australia and some other locations Suprelorin) and Melatonin use:

http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/adrenal.htm

and

http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/melatonin.htm

and if your ferret gets some of the other complications I suggest reading all the adrenal posts in the FHL Archives that are from AFERRETVET. The FHL Archives can be found at

http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org

You can read about mast cell tumors in ferrets in

http://www.afip.org/ferrets/Mast/mastcell.html

-- Sukie (not a vet)
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