From:
Robert Rose
Date: 2007-02-15 19:33:43 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Hairless Fuzzy
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
In cases of hair loss, adrenal disease should be the first thing to be ruled out. Hair loss, and a swollen vulva are some of the indicators of such a condition. The following links have info about adrenal disease:
http://exoticpets.about.com/cs/ferrets/a/ferretadrenal.htm
http://www.ferret-universe.com/health/adrenal.asp
http://www.everythingferret.com/adrenal_disease.htm
The bottomline is that if it is adrenal disease then vetrinary intervention is the only course of action. Either surgery to remove the disease organ or lupron to surpress the symptoms (but adrenal gland remains diseased).
If its not adrenal disease, then check out these links:
http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?articleid=543
http://www.ferretcentral.org/faq/part4.html (general faq but good nonetheless)
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
SirHopofGrass
[Moderator's Note: Also highly recommended and very current vet write up:
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/adrenal.htm
and the FHL archives
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ ]
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