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Post by timmysmom20 on Sept 21, 2008 8:30:29 GMT -5
Last night i wind up having to rush Cowboy back to the vets cause he keeps having crashes, i saw alittle what i call it foaming inhis mouth and i thought maybe he was going to die right there on me, i have given him karo sur , honey.. the dr gave me dextros to help him out of it quicker if he should crash again, do you guys have any healthy redmadies that just might help my boy, hes 6 yrs old now and i got him from a priver breeder along with his 2 sisters back in 2002 and they were 5 months old then, so far the sisters have no health problems except Casandra had a tumer on her back hip a few months ago wish have been removed and benied for cancer.. here is a picture of my boy and grandaughter feeding him his duck soup..hope it was ok to post in this setion,,
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Post by suds on Sept 21, 2008 10:12:53 GMT -5
cute pic both are adorable ! Like heather said in your general chat discusion suplementing with raw could help . poor littlr guy I will keep him in my prayer's
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Post by mustelidmusk on Sept 21, 2008 11:20:57 GMT -5
Hi!
I've had a air amount of experience with isulinomic ferrets, so I have recommendations....
The LITTLE BIT of karo syrup is given to help get your ferret out of a hypoglycemic crash. However, the sugar MUST be immediatey followed up by protiein. To mitigate the risk of further crashes, you need to drastically reduce the amount of carb intake and keep protein coming into the system at a constant rate.
This means high protein/lo carb foods must be available at all times. A raw diet would help with this, but even if you're feeding kibble, the easiest switch would be to switch to a low carb kibble first , followed by the additon of Wysong archetypal I to the kibble. The kibble can be phased out over time.
heather is correct, low blood sugar results in nausea, so you may need to periodically force feed your ferret protein to help stabilize him.
To summarize on therecommendation: 1 use as little sugar as possible to bring your ferret out of a hypoglycemic attack. If you see signs of a crah starting up - feed protein. 2. as soon as your ferret strts perking up a bit, get protein into his system 3. Keep protein foods available at all times. Be sure your ferrt eats high protein/lo-no carb food regularly thoughot the day. 4. Switch foods from kibble t highwr-protein/lower carb kibble (EVO) add freeze-dried raw to that diet. (Feed compete raw commercial diets only sinceyour ferret is prone to not eating due to nausea 5. Work with your vet to add prednisone/predisolone to the treatment if your ferret is not already on it. Pred is excellent at stabilizing the blood sugars.
-jennifer
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Post by Heather on Sept 22, 2008 0:07:27 GMT -5
I found that when Little Zena was diagnosed that if I could catch her before she crashed and fed her, I could avoid a crash. The problem with most kibbles is as was stated by Jennifer, even though you're little one is eating kibbles, kibbles changes into sugars, sugars create a spike and then a crash. Think about what happens when you eat a candy bar. It gives you a rush, you feel great and then half an hour later you want to go to bed and sleep the sugar hang over off and we're healthy . Imagine what that crash is like if you're body is starving for another hit. I've never fed archetypal but I've heard good things about it. It looks horrible and doesn't smell particularly good but kibble smells worse I used Little Zena's raw diet just as it's been described. When we first started treating her she could go days without getting wobbly and then I would feed her. If I hadn't seen her in a couple of hours then I would go looking for her (she was older (8 or 9) at the time of her death, so she would sleep for hours at a time) I would then feed her and she would be fine and again go for a considerable time before oversleeping, feeling nauseous and having to be force fed again. Towards the end I would just feed her every evening that way if she decided to just go to sleep when she was put to bed (instead of eating quail treats) then she wouldn't crash on me during the night. In the end it wasn't insulinomas that claimed her... that's the problem with cancers...they become other things, other cancers. In the space of 2 weeks I suddenly couldn't control her blood sugar, she started to seizure. The vet suggested that we release her as her insulinomas had mastastized to a brain tumour and the pressure on her brain was causing the seizures. It wasn't our inability to control her blood sugar anymore that was causing the seizures but the pressure on the brain itself. Good luck, I will light a healing candle for Cowboy...may he continue to play, eat huge amounts of soupy and live a good deal longer. ciao
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