A few days ago, because someone kept asking me if Steve and i should try this for Hilbert, I asked on the FHL if there is such a thing as a safe dose of sodium bicarbonate for ferrets with kidney problems because I knew from looking it up that the compound has the potential to do very serious damage and can be the cause of multiple serious health problems. Well, I got a vet email today that there are way too many attached risks to normally consider it for ferrets. The vet indicated that the very concept of people trying it caused a feeling of dread since so much can go so very wrong from it. So, now you know that, too. If a vet wants to experimentally try it for an animal who fits the profile for it that is one thing, but non-vets should NOT assume that just because this stuff is around the house that they should assume (incorrectly) that it is safe for ferrets. >Now, these were only human studies, but I did not find any in ferrets >that appeared to be applicable to the search I was doing that day: > <http://www.la-press.com/forty-years-abuse-of-baking-soda-rhabdomyolysis-glomerulonephritis-hyp-article-a869> 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) [Posted in FML 6798]
