From:
"valkyriestorm78"
Date: 2009-09-21 00:40:18 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Skin problem for over three years, HELP!
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Hi I am new hear and I am a member of the Holistic Ferret Forms and was told to post this here. Now this is what Skunkers has been dealing with for the past three years or more. He is 4 now. I have taken him to 4 different vets and no one has given me a definitive answer to what is wrong with him. But as I said before I found a web site on line that says this is one of the tell tail signs of Adrenal. Here is the website
http://www.cypresskeep.com/Ferretfiles/Skin-FM.htm
So I wash this discoloration off his head and neck with just warm water and it slowly comes back in two weeks. He does seem to itch a bunch in those spots because he gets the discoloration on his toes. One of the vets even had me try a medicated shampoo and I knew it would never work but tried it anyway. Here are some pictures below. Please let me know if anyone else has this problem or knows what it is.
You can find his pictures in the Photo Album under Skunkers Skin Priblem
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/photos/album/1453618316/pic/list
[The photos do not seem clearly adrenal to me but as is
no secret my vision isn't great.
I thought that you might want to see some of the types of possible
skin problems in ferrets
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/Diseases/Urogenital_Skin_SpecialSenses_Muskuloskeletal.pdf
scrolling down will get you to Dermatomycosis
BEGIN QUOTE
Uncommon in ferrets
Young or immunosuppressed
Microsporium canis
Trichophyton mentagrophytes
Necropsy:
Crusting allopecia
brittle hair
Many broken hair shafts
generalised rash
and there are other skin problems discussed in
http://www.afip.org/consultation/vetpath/ferrets/index.html
END QUOTE
and in the FHL Archives, for examples (a list from an earlier post):
Cutaneous lymphoma (which CAN be treated more successfully
than other forms if it is just among the things for which testing
is done)
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL1761
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG525
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/SG11144
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG11076
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG276
Pemphigus
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL1766
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/SG12950
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG203
but not that it is blistering illness:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG167
Mites/Mange (Sarcoptes or sarcoptic and Demodex for some search words)
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/FHL436
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG1061
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG9188
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG9210
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/SG5781
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/SG14589
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/SG18611
Allergies with secondary bacterial infections:
Look up Hilbert in the separate FHL Archives
Fungus or bacteria:
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/YG484
and of course ringworm which is fungal rather than a worm.
--Moderator (one of them)]
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