Environmental toxin exposure in sugar gliders (heavy metals, cage PVC)
Verbatim first-hand facts from The Merck Veterinary Manual (sugar-glider). All bullets are exact substrings of the cited source file and C1-substring verified. Focus: toxicosis and environmental hazards of the pet species.
Toxicology facts
- Causes of neurological signs in pet sugar gliders include nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism, exposure to toxins (eg, heavy metals; anecdotally, polyvinyl chloride from cages), bacterial meningitis, toxoplasmosis , traumatic brain injury, otitis media/interna , encephalitis from aberrant CNS migration of the nematode Baylisascaris procyonis, and encephalomalacia due to vitamin E deficiency.