Message Number: FHL6398 | New FHL Archives Search
From: "Clover Williams"
Date: 2008-10-18 14:32:57 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: white spots on liver
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com

Hmmm--yes, this sounds likely. She specifically said it didn't look
like lymphoma. I don't have a feel for how good she is at seat-of-the-
pants diagnosis, but I don't think she'd say anything if she didn't
have a pretty good idea. She's refused to guess before. And I just
have a feeling that fat blobs would be obvious to most vets (though
maybe not, if a lab had to write an article about it).

So I'll do an implant and start him on pred and everything. What
would be the amounts? He's just under two pounds. My pred is 6.7/5. I
guess milk thistle isn't standardized for whatever the active
ingredient is, but SAMe and omega 3s should be.

What are the symptoms of this?

--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "Susan Liszewski DVM"
<suedvm96@...> wrote:
>
> I removed a lobe of liver in a ferret with these all over and they
> came back as hepatocellular carcinoma. It carries a poor prognosis
> but the good news is that the one I treated and supplemented her
> lived one year past surgery despite what everyone told me.
>
> We used milk Thistle, SAMem melatonin, and she was alread on pred.I
> can't recall what other supplements she was on but Omega 3 fatty
> acids too. We mixed everything in a soup and she ate it fine.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Dr. Sue

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