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To Mary Allen:
>Last night Merritt started to cry very loud. I went in to find him...
>making this terrible cry, and was soaking wet from salivating. This is the
>third time this has happened in the past few months. Prior to that, he has
>never done this... Also, he does seem to be a bit more wobbly when he
>first gets up -- He's now about 4 1/2. Do I need to be concerned?
Mary , whiel it may jsut be a coincidence - your post lists three of the
major signs of islet cell tumros (insulinomas) in ferrets. We often hear
vocalization in animals with blood glucose in the very low ranges druing a
hypoglycemic cases. In fact these animals often lose consciousness (I have
heard it reffered to as going"screaming into a coma".) Hypersalivation is
also a sign that we see with hypoglycemic ferrets.
As far as wobbliness - ferrets can be wobby as a result of either
acture or chronic hypoglycemia - the chronic hypoglycemia can cause
degenerative changes in peripheral nerves, which affects locomotion.
I thin a blood glucose test is certainly in order for Merritt.
--
Bruce Williams, DVM, DACVP Department of Veterinary Pathology
[log in to unmask] Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
[log in to unmask] Washington, D.C. 20306-6000
(202) 782-2600/2602
[Posted in FML issue 1188]
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