When deciding to provide vitamin supplements for your sugar glider, there could
easily be the possibility of hypervitaminosis
[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001594.htm hypervitaminosis]
which is a cause of many things including liver failure.
[http://books.google.com/books?id=9P0COKdYFcMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA298#v=onepage&q=&f=false Page 298] of The Complete Guide to the Care of Macropods By Lynda Staker is an interesting read discussing how supplementing Vitamin D is bad for Macropods and probably all nocturnal marsupials in general. Too much vitamin D in marsupials will suck the calcium out of the bones causing the same result that supplementing is intended to prevent.
[http://www.mazuri.com/PDF/5Z88.pdf Wallaby/Roo kibble] has an extremely low
VitD vitamin D content because of this research. They also boost VitE and
Selenium to help prevent [http://www.sheepandgoat.com/articles/WMD.html white
muscle disease] which could present somewhat similar to hind leg paralysis.
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