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sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2006-06-21 16:22:25 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] RE: adrenal disease/cushings disease
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Some of the possible causes of swollen vulvas are infection (which can be alone or can be secondary to either of the next two), adrenal disease, uterine stump infection, or retained reproductive tissue.
With ferrets don't think "Cushings"; think instead "hyperhormonal" when thinking about the typical adrenal disease problem, including types of adrenal growths that would cause problems with her vulva.
Here are some resources to help you and your vet and others on the FHL will have further suggestions, I am sure, either as private replies or as posts which can be most rapidly read by reading on the website (See my sig lines.).
Here are some basics. Note that some ferrets have only one symptom. Some may have no symptoms until a complication appears. Others will have multiple symptoms.
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/basics.htm
>From a ferret vet:
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/adrenal.htm
and there are more at that site, including some excellent ones by Mike Janke with review by ferret vets.
>From the FHL Archives (which can be linked to from our home page by clicking on the bold text mentioning archives):
>From vets:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/browse.php?msg=SG15827
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/browse.php?msg=SG5436
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/browse.php?msg=SG2049
(each also contains important complications info)
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/browse.php?msg=YG1952
(notice why it is not Cushings)
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/browse.php?msg=SG5054
(untreated adrenal disease)
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/browse.php?msg=SG10790
(Old, but may have some info you need. Since then have your vet look into the vet journal articles of Dr. Nico Schoemaker, too.)
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/browse.php?msg=SG16270
(another study which will produce an article worth reading if it hasn't already)
>From others or a combo and worth reading:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/browse.php?msg=SG16126
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/browse.php?msg=SG16112
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/browse.php?msg=SG15327
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/browse.php?msg=SG17126
(Notice the importance of providing enough complete darkness for ferrets, esp. those who have been neutered. Try for around 14 hours being available in each 24 hour period. Sleeping boxes and other places to escape light help greatly. In just recently released studies amber light has the least effect on reducing the melatonin the body itself produces, whereas blue is the worst light for that disruption with green also bad, so if you need to use a dim bulb for some reason try amber for those times but do provide places to escape light. Notice that many white lights, plus monitors and tv screens are heavy on blue wave length components.)
and there is a lot more in the archives
-- Sukie (not a vet, and not speaking for any of the below in my private posts)
Recommended health resources to help ferrets and the people who love them:
Ferret Health List
http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/ferrethealth
FHL Archives
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
AFIP Ferret Pathology
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
Miamiferrets
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/
International Ferret Congress Critical References
http://www.ferretcongress.org
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