From:
Regina Badriya Harrison
Date: 2007-06-04 18:14:49 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Cancer and Vitamin C in ferrets
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
At the recommendation of my vet at the time, a vet for whom I have a great deal of respect, I have given a ferret with lymphoma a daily dose of vitamin C. I don't remember now exactly how much was in each tablet, but it was a tablet meant to give daily to guinea pigs. I dissolved it and mixed it with Pan's carnivore care. We did not give vitamin C to Pan thinking it could in any way reverse his lymphoma but hoped, based on what my vet said, that it might help slow down its development or better equip his body to confront it.
It's hard to know how much good it did, if any; Pan had a pretty aggressive form of lymphoma and we only had about three and a half months with him after diagnosis (he was a little over a year and a half old when diagnosed, and in many ways his disease more closely resembled the juvenile form of lymphoma). My vet felt that any vitamin overdose was very unlikely at the level he was taking (not to mention his expected life span), so we felt it wouldn't do any harm. It certainly helped us feel like we were giving Pan the best support that we could. But in the end, I can't say whether it did anything for him or not.
Regina
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