Message Number: SG15511 | New FHL Archives Search
From: sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-09-26 13:10:25 UTC
Subject: RE: Epilepsy on a ferret
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <1035381.1127740225072.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

While epilepsy or a neurological disease is possible, these symptoms in a ferret virtually always are due to insulinoma.

There had been a myth that European ferrets don't get insulinoma, but more and more WHEN ferrets with seizures, or glassy-eyed ferrets, or ferrets with pronounced lethargy have their blood sugar tested insulinoma shows up.

Here is an EXCELLENT write-up on insulinoma:

http://www.afip.org/ferrets/PDF/insulinoma.pdf