From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2011-08-25 23:27:58 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] This article is written from a dog perspective but impacts ferrets, too
To: fhl <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>, FML List <ferret-l@LISTSERV.FERRETMAILINGLIST.ORG>
Ferrets also get Vitamin D poisoning, and as you read you will see that they discovered a new way for things to add up on that score:
<http://cvm.msu.edu/about-the-college/news-and-events/publications/perspectives-magazine/perspectives-summer-2011/the-right-test-right-time>
in
<http://cvm.msu.edu/about-the-college/news-and-events/publications/perspectives-magazine/perspectives-summer-2011>
In Vitamin D toxicosis calcium deposits happen in organs, especially in the kidneys and heart. It can be dealt with IF the cause is found in time. This is not typically a problem for humans who need a decent bit of Vitamin D but it is a risk for dogs and ferrets. (On the other hand humans are much, much more inclined to getting too much Vitamin A than ferrets are. Hey, we don't have a long ancestry of eating livers, and they don't have a long ancestry of sun exposure, and those explain such differences.)
This paragraph really got my attention because it indicates the importance of people with doctorates in veterinary nutrition designing foods since some nutrients change with digestion and the body processing them:
> The incident seems to have passed after withdrawal of the particular diet batches in question. With a lack of evidence for excessive vitamin D3 content, new questions are raised regarding other bioactive forms of vitamin D in the food that would not be measured in routine analytic procedures.
but the entire article is worth reading.
When we can afford it Steve and I give to the Ferret Health Advancement group there, so we get the magazine sent to us, and I was happy to find it online so that I could share this information to help ferret people.
Here is Ferret Health Advancement which includes a lot to useful presentations and more to help with ferret health, and you will see that they have done a huge amount of work that makes life safer for domestic ferrets and hope to continue doing more:
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
Enjoy all the resources Ferret Health Advancement at MSU has put up to freely help you and your vets learn; in that way, too, they help protect ferrets and help ferret people.
Sukie (not a vet)
Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
all ferret topics:
http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html
"All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow."
(2010, Steve Crandall)
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