From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-12-20 18:05:52 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Help with Growth on Ferret Please
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
discussed on the AFIP site but only removal and biopsy will tell what
it actually is.
See:
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
including
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/Sebep/sebep.html
Brown recluse bites don't cause a growth. They cause a lesion
with dying tissue. Note that the tissue forms a PIT not a growth.
Some brown recluse bite resources:
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/site/free/hlsa0805.htm
You can click on the pictures to enlarge.
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/site/free/hlsa0805.htm
(The spread has increased but not as far as some worry.)
http://spiders.ucr.edu/avoidbites.html
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2061.html
http://www.srv.net/~dkv/hobospider/recluse.html
http://dermatology.cdlib.org/DOJvol5num2/special/recluse.html
QUOTE:
Two other spiders that have the potential to produce necrotizing
wounds, though much less well-documented than the brown recluse,
are the hobo spider and the yellow sac spider. The hobo spider (Tegenaria
agrestis) may be found in the Pacific Northwest as far east as Montana
and south into Oregon and Utah. The two yellow sac species
(Cheiracanthium spp.) are found all over the United States, but probably
only produce minor necrotic wounds.
END QUOTE
http://www.brownreclusespider.org/
http://www.brownreclusespider.org/brown-recluse-spider-location.htm
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7468.html
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7468.html#MISIDENTIFICATION
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/spider_bite_brown_recluse_spider_bite/article_em.htm
The effects of any necrotizing spider bite can be more pronounced in
especially vulnerable individuals.
Again, the range has widened, but not as far as some fear.
The Hobo Spiders have 6 rather than 8 eyes -- a useful thing for
identification of this grouping which includes the Brown Recluse and some
other spiders that can produce necrotizing wounds (though usually lesser
ones).
The AFIP ferret site is the best place on the web to look at various
ferret tumors, esp. if you have Power Point so can also run the slide
shows.
The photos the poster given resemble at least one type of growth
discussed on the AFIP site but only removal and biopsy will tell what
it actually is.
See:
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
including
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/Sebep/sebep.html
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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