From:
"Tressie"
Date: 2009-06-16 00:31:07 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: unexplained onset of diabetes: zinc poisoning
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "ferretboogie35" <ferretboogie@...> wr=
ote:
>
> I learned from one of my vets, that one cause of diabetic symptoms in a f=
erret, as in a bird, can be zinc poisoning. My vet made the connection fro=
m treating birds presenting with very high blood sugars who live in galvani=
zed wire cages.=20
This is an older study but nevertheless relevant. These ferrets were poiso=
ned by the zinc powder in their galvanized wires cages when raw meat was pu=
shed through the wires to feed them:
Lab Anim 1981;15:45-47
doi:10.1258/002367781780958595
=A9 1981 Laboratory Animals Limited
Zinc poisoning in ferrets (Mustella putorls furo)
E. F. Straube and N. B. Walden
Department of Agriculture, Veterinary Research Institute, Park Drive, Parkv=
ille, Victoria, 3052, Australia; Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, 45 Poplar=
road, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia
An outbreak of illness is described in a group of experimentally-housed fer=
rets fed exclusively on raw meat which was accidentally contaminated with a=
zinc compound, The condition was manifested by nephrotoxicity, and zinc po=
isoning was diagnosed after autopsy and laboratory investigation. "...we co=
ncluded that the origin of
the condition could be traced to the contamination of
meat by the fine white powder encountered on the wire
cages (p. 46)."
The full text PDF file of the article is available for free at:
http://la.rsmjournals.com/cgi/reprint/15/1/45.pdf
Tressie
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