From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2008-01-24 22:44:59 UTC
Subject: Pred Re: [ferrethealth] Digest Number 1037
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
You don't want to use tea tree oil; it's estrogenic properties may be too hard on the
adrenals and marrow (for males also possibly too hard on the prostate).
I am glad that you did not mention any of the OTCs sold for larger pets; some of those
can destroy marrow and kill ferrets. You'll notice in the separate archives that we had to
find out for a member how to do a marrow transplant because of that.
Here is the tea tree oil data posted in July of 2006:
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http://ferrethealth.org/archive/SG17746
I seem to recall some people who were using tea tree oil or lavender
oil on ferrets. It might be a bad idea. New research into breast
development in young males who had not been using other things which
can have this effect led researchers to study these two oils.
> Bloch contacted Derek Henley and Kenneth Korach of the National
> Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle
> Park, N.C. In their lab, the two investigators exposed human-breast
> cells to lavender oil and, separately, to tea tree oil. They found
> that each oil turned on estrogen-regulated genes and inhibited an
> androgen-regulated gene.
With ferrets already prone to too many endocrinological problems
these are very likely best avoided at this point.
> "These oils possess both estrogenic and anti-androgenic
> properties," Henley reported at the Endocrine Society meeting in
> Boston this week. He adds that the finding is the first to
> implicate "essential oils" from plants in gynecomastia.
(See the upcoming edition of Science News.)
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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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