Message Number: FHL10792 | New FHL Archives Search
From: "Tressie"
Date: 2010-01-19 22:39:31 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: 7 year old Ferret with Insulinoma and meds are not working like they use to
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com



--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, Mike <mcapps1@...> wrote:
>
> His owners were not giving him anything but I did notice that everytime w=
e give him his prednisolone he eats right after that.=A0 In fact we see him=
eating quite often, more often than we see our own ferrets eat.
> =A0
Pred increases appetite as most steroids do. However, he still should eat =
something FIRST before he gets it otherwise he has a high probability of de=
veloping an ulcer, if he doesn't have one already=20

Key question - are his owners likely to maintain treatments when they take =
him back?

Tressie



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