Loris and potto care: preventive measures and examinations
recommended
Daily / regularly during normal care:
Control for bite wounds or changes of the skin
15.
Visual control of the nutritional state, see figures for weight judgement
in
N. pygmaeus and
Loris
(for prevention of obesity, detection of weight loss)
61.
Availability
of some hard food cleaning the teeth (see table 4, organ lesions)
Paraffin
oil (Ribjer, pers. comm.) or special substances such as Miturat catlax
for cats, added to the food at regular intervals, may diminish the danger
of development of trichobezoars = hairballs in the intestine.
Occasionally,
at longer intervals:
Urine dipstick tests for symptoms of diabetes and kidney disease with
dipsticks for humans (urine can easily be collected on a plastic foil spread
on the cage floor) 15.
Routine
weighing
61.
Routine fecal exams, biannually
61.
Careful
oral and dental examination each time a loris is examined because dental
disease may lead to disseminated bacterial infection and secondary disease
61.
Tuberculin
testing (upper eyelid, using mammalian old tuberculin, 0.1 cc intradermal)
61.