From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-07-31 15:55:00 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: other benefits to propecia?
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
There is a real lot to be said for being able to pass urine again as
well as for decreasing the levels of some of the hormones which are
over-produced during adrenal disease...
I think that there is some miscommunication and misunderstanding
happening, and that learning some of the basics may help.
Dr. Susan Brown has wrote in 2001:
http://www.veterinarypartner.com/Content.plx?P=A&A=478&S=5
which you REALLY, REALLY, REALLY want to pick up your
library card and go to the library computers to read if you don't
have your home computer working now and still can't access
websites from work.
>The male ferret has prostatic tissue that surrounds the neck
>of the bladder at the area where the bladder empties into the
>urethra. The urethra is the tube that empties the bladder to the
>outside.
...
>When an enlargement of the prostatic tissue occurs... This can
>result in a distended bladder, bladder diverticula (where part of the
>bladder wall balloons out and forms another section to the bladder),
>or a secondary infection of the bladder. The ferret has difficulty urinating
>Eventually the ferret is totally unable to urinate due to complete
>constriction of the urethra or by plugging of the urethra... Prostate
>disease in ferrets is commonly misdiagnosed as a primary urinary
>disorder, such as bladder stones or a bladder infection. Primary urinary
>diseases can presents with similar signs.
>At the time of this writing all cases of ferrets with prostate disease
>reported in the United States and in our own personal clinical experience,
>also have adrenal disease. The hypothesis is that the diseased adrenal
>glands produce excessive amounts of hormones...
(Well, you already know THAT because the TN Panel found it was
happening in your ferret!)
There is a lot more in that excellent article, of course, and I strongly urge
you to read it SOON and print a copy for yourself if possible.
You have already had a number of adrenal resources suggested as well
as receiving a great deal of direct info on that problem.
Although written for human males it seems like a bit of basic
prostate info would help you and this site is by urologists and
the following site is another good place for that.
You will want to check even the sections I don't mention here.
If you can not access the website from your work computer
then, please, get to the library and take these URLs with you
to check there using one of the library's computers.
http://www.urologychannel.com/prostate/bph/symptoms.shtml
Notice that prostate enlargement itself can cause blood in
urine (and way more).
Notice how the prostate grows in
http://www.urologychannel.com/prostate/bph/index.shtml
If you click open the section on treatments you will find
that proscar works by better controlling the levels of
hormones that first cause the trouble and that the meds do
not always work right away. In fact, among humans it can
sometimes take 6 months of using that type of med to see
results.
There is info there on other meds, too, some of which you
will find used for ferrets in past posts listed in the easily
searched FHL Archives
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
yet another resource you can get to with your library
membership, or using the computer of a friend if you don't
yet have access outside work.
Sukie (not a vet)
Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
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