From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2007-07-01 21:18:38 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] for the ferret with incontinence and paralysis
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
(Sorry about the change iin subject but we are getting a port 80
failure of the browser server for Optonline so I can't get to either
the FHL or my g-mail right now to find out the right subject
heading. I should have copied it when I copied my one paragraph.
This also means that I can't get to the pending box till it is up
again, yet another reason to be glad the FHL has several of us
moderators.)
This may supplement what was early found.
> Because my 93 year old father has been so ill with a terminal
> illness I have had little time to spend with the newest (just very
> recently released) vet text here, _Ferret Husbandry, Medicine and
> Surgery, second edition_ by John H. Lewington so I will grab that
> first, and get back to you later with another post as time allows.
Okay, let's take a look there now:
Starting on page 72 are nutritional conditions. So far on skimming
there is some overlap with some so:
thiamine deficiency (not a good fit)
hypervitaminosis (among the vitamins mentioned I know there is info
in the FHL or FML archives,or both on hypervitaminosis D3 with info
in the last year or two from Dr. Tom Willard whose doctorate is in
veterinary nutrition) Acute onset info especially can be found at
page 385 with some mention of slower onset cases, too.
Yellow Fat disease (nutritional steatis) (not a good match)
Nutritional hyperparathyroidism or nutritional rickets set into
motion by too little calcium
(among other things the bones are soft and easily broken, and the
ferrets seem to swim when they move -- like doing a breast stroke to
get around) See also later if people want to look this up in kits,
pages 105 and 106.
Later on page 84 he also adds that diet which have not contained
choline or acetylcholine have resulted in spondylosis and tremors.
Page 284:
Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis (NCL) page 284, recorded in
Australia: gradual onset parests leading to incontinence, behavioral
changes, and often blindness. No known treatment. Requires histo by
a vet pathologist of nerve tissue looking for intracytoplasmic
granules typical of the disease. This is an inherited condition due
to an enzyme deficiency with early clinical signs more typical of a
thoracolumbar lesion. Differential diagnoses include botulism
(working from Fox's text also that is typically a raw foods disease
when ferrets get it) tick paralysis (We have some nasty tick
diseases in the U.S. but there is a just as nasty if not worse one
in at least part of Australia.), Aleutian Disease, ad spinal injury.
Page 334: pretty much covers the same ground as some past posts for
which URLs were given.
Page 339: some tumors of bones and nerve tissue in general in
ferrets: osteoma, osteosarcoma, chordoma, lumbar spine T-cell
lymphoma with acute on-set (Hanley, Wilson and Frank, et al in Vet
Rec 2004; 155:329-332)
Page 343: tumors of nerves include a granular cell tumor,
menangioma, astrocytoma, and glioma but not all of these would fit
your description I think
Page 380 begins toxicoses in ferrets, and starts with one of
Feynmann's great quotes (though not my own favorite of his ;-) )
Though not highly useful iin your case, I LOVE the toxicology section
and am so glad to see such a good one that is so easy to use in a
ferret vet text.
Damage to the spinal cord begins on page 449. Some things mentioned:
concussion, compression and laceration of thje spinal cord;
congenital vertebral instability, penetrating and non-penetrating
injuries, and acquired damage causing stenosis of the vertebral canal;
neoplasia;
intraspinal synovial and ganglion cysts;
arachnoid cysts;
autonomic dysreflexia (I have no idea what that is and will have to
learn more later when time allow)
then skimming more I see mentioned some degenerative and inflammatory
things like disc prolapse and discospondylitis
I don't have to time to read it but a spinal surgery is detailed on
pages 450 and 451
Hey, I have a question: has anyone ever encountered a congenital
hemivertebra in a ferret?
Hopefully, something here may help someone
Saunders Elsevier for the text
http://www.elsevierhealth.com
ISBN 978-0-7020-2827-4
Thanks for the chance ot learn some things and the excuse to spend
some highly enjoyable time buried in this new book. I needed the
break. Sadly, I don't know if I will have time to check any other
refs at this time.
Sukie (not a vet)
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http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/
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http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
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