Sugar glider nutritional osteodystrophy
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> Pet sugar gliders maintained on a mainly fruit diet containing few gut-loaded insects or other protein sources are very susceptible to nutritional osteodystrophy (nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism). > This condition results from an imbalance in dietary calcium, phosphorus, and vitamin D and manifests clinically as posterior paresis progressing to hindlimb paralysis, muscle tremors, pathological bone fractures, and, in some advanced cases, seizures.
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Pet sugar gliders maintained on a mainly fruit diet containing few gut-loaded insects or other protein sources are very susceptible to nutritional osteodystrophy (nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism).This condition results from an imbalance in dietary calcium, phosphorus, and vitamin D and manifests clinically as posterior paresis progressing to hindlimb paralysis, muscle tremors, pathological bone fractures, and, in some advanced cases, seizures.