From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2010-09-30 19:18:53 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] hypercalcemia Blue Buffalo food warning from VIN; raisin risk reminder
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
My brain is working with a piece at a time coming to the fore today,
so here is another possibility for that ferret in case anyone here
also needs this info:
It COULD be from that food. He may be more personally vulnerable.
Read the VIN article and consider if it might have too much Vitamin D
for him.
DO get a urine pH on him as well as urine concentration numbers. THOSE
ARE IMPORTANT! If he is genetically prone to cystine uroliths then the
high protein food will be causing kidney debris. If his pH is too
acidic that could well be your answer.
There is no good reason for a ferret who gets cystine stones to not
live a full life once the crisis is over by simply keeping the protein
intake down to about 35%. Many ferrets who get those stones do not
need meds for them. (I know of only 2 where meds were needed.) We
just lost Hilbert after he got over SEVEN ADDITIONAL YEARS of life,
dying just a tiny bit shy of 8 years old because we restricted his
protein intake when his cystine problem was discovered in his first
year of life. He had two other kidney crises later from other
causes: diabetes, and a severe infection both in his last year of life.
The urine concentration number will help tell how extreme to be in
supportive care, BTW.
Don't stint on IV.
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