Message Number: SG18311 | New FHL Archives Search
From: sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2006-09-18 03:09:16 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] RE: fludrocort
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com



Author wrote:
> Are you sure that someone didn't say or think "Fludrocort" but mean an entirely different medicine? I could not find any application of Fludrocort for insulinoma.

Later I found minor, possibly related hints, but nothing more.

>patients taking oral medicines or insulin for diabetes may need to increase the amount they take

is present in

http://www.drugs.com/cons/Florinef.html

http://www.drugs.com/pdr/florinef_acetate_tablets.html
has
>Endocrine --menstrual irregularities; development of the cushingoid state; suppression of

growth in children; secondary adrenocortical and pituitary unresponsiveness, particularly in times of stress (e.g., trauma, surgery, or illness); decreased carbohydrate tolerance; manifestations of latent diabetes mellitus; and increased requirements for insulin or oral hypoglycemic agents in diabetics.

end quote

but a number of other medication sites didn't mention that so perhaps the effect is small.

Does your vet realize that ferrets are much less prone to having any problems with Pred than many other species?

Is your vet thinking in terms of poly-endrocrine failure as in
http://www.dcavm.org/01mar.htm
which doesn't look applicable to me but what do I know?




-- Sukie (not a vet, and not speaking for any of the below in my private posts)
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