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sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2006-05-06 20:03:47 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] RE: ?? on advanced adrenal (Cookie update)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Well, if it does not go to other organs and cause problems there then it will be like an untreated adrenal.
Here is info on that topic, and you can look up things like bone marrow toxicosis with its anemia, and prostate disease if you have a male.
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/browse.php?msg=SG5054
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Actually tonight I am working on a promised article to Ferrets Mag about adrenal disease. But I think that Melissa and Sukie have covered the dire possibilities very well (and they are very real.)
However, even under the best conditions, when there is no malignancy, there is no bone marrow toxicosis, there is no prostatic cystic disease - even the most mild prediction is a sad one. Ferrets with adrenal disease have a diminished quality of life - they have progressive muscle loss, low grade anemia, they tend to redistribute weight to the abdomen, further making it difficult to walk, they have an increased incidence of gastric ulcers as a result of the stress of chronic illness, decreased bone density - none life-threatening, but all life-compromising. Even medical treatment, which is not my preferred way of treating adrenal disease, gives slight releif to symptoms. Doing nothing is not kind and not in a ferret's best interest.
With kindest regards,
Bruce Williams, DVM
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I think from one past experience that in the case of a lymphoma in an adrenal it also pays to read about Addisons Disease.
If it goes to other organs or to the nervous system then things will be different.
There is info on lymphoma and also on treating pain if that starts and if it is not the end in the archives. We personally have had good experience usually with Torb and Prednisolone. You will have noticed recent discussions also on a new chemo approach, the Tufts Protocol.
Between the increased tendency toward ulcers and the Prednisolone (which should be given with food) it will pay to ask your vet for a script for the liquid prep of Carafate which pretty much any pharmacy carries and which is affordable and taken pretty easily by a large portion of ferrets. Do not give the Carafate with food, and separate it even further in time from any meds.
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