From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-12-12 19:11:25 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Adrenal disease or vigourous winter shedding?
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
The sheds are when seasons are changing: Fall and Spring, so this is not a standard shed
time, but if the LIGHTING you use has changed that could bring on a shed, though that
would be a slower and more normal shed like a seasonal shed.
Look up the UT Panel info in the separate HL Archives or in Miami Ferret to find the
hormonal info.
Oh, wait, I have the location and that may have it for you:
http://www.vet.utk.edu/diagnostic/endocrinology/
Vet should check the ferret also for skin parasites and for skin fungus or bacterial
infection, as well as allergy, but usually that symptom is going to indicate adrenal disease.
The one we had who shed very rapidly had a carcinoma, but it was well encapsulated so
rapid surgery got it out safely and she went on to live another 5 or 5 and 1/2 years --
living to a ripe old age.
Some just give Lupron DEPOT and see if it helps to get a handle if it might be adrenal
disease since that won't help if it isn't.
Melatonin, though, can NOT help diagnose because it has only smaller effects on some
causes of adrenal disease but it also affects the skin directly so will always regrow fur no
matter what is going on, and no matter if the problem is worsening. (We use it when one
of ours who has multiple allergies loses fur from his allergies, along with treatment,
including for the secondary dermal bacterial infections he sometimes gets when his
allergies are very bad.)
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