From:
Lynne Fink
Date: 2006-12-13 20:13:32 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Re: Due season - Great question
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Hey Robert,
No, the melatonin is not quite like your defibrillator implant. It is a slow release of melatonin into the body over a period of 3-4 months. Melatonin is a hormone (I believe, I'm not a vet) that the adrenal glands produce. When they stop producing it we see hair loss, swollen vulvas (in females), and very aggressive behavior (in a not normally aggressive ferret). There are probably other things but I'm not sure what they are. It is a small implant, about the size of a grain of rice that is implanted in the scruff and slowly releases melatonin over a 3-4 month period. We have had mainly great results and hair usually starts to grow within a couple of weeks after the implant. It doesn't work with all though but we find it well worth the chance that it will. I am sending you the website of the company that manufactures it. It is very well explained and will help you better understand what I am trying to explain.
www.melatek.net . The director is Tim Cairns and he is a very helpful person to talk to and they do have an 800 #. I hope this info will help your little one and yourself. There is so much now available for ferrets that a lot of vets are not aware of. Please keep me up to date if you can. Hopefully your vet will want to learn more about ferrets and what there is available out there to help them. Maybe one of the vets on this list will jump in here and correct any info that I am mistaken on.
Lynne and the brats
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