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>Subject: Low Blood Sugar Mystery
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>He becomes disoriented and staggers like a drunk man.  Sometimes he loses
>his balance.  One occasion he became unresponsive and began drooling.  We
>got some glucose into him and ran him to the emergency vet.  Despite the
>fact he had just been eating, his blood sugar was very low.   <snipage>
>Does anybody out there have insight?  We're worried about our old man and
>don't want to lose him so soon after the other two.
 
Okay, you have a case of insulinoma. Go to
http://www.miamiferret..org/fhc/
and slid down the page to the section on insulinoma.  I'd recommend that
you print out some or most of the articles and give them to your vet.
 
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Russ, Booger, Bonnie & Clyde
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[Posted in FML issue 3749]