![]() After checking with colleagues who are leaders in the menopause field, Stuenkel reported, “Universally, people just said, ‘I have never heard of it.’ ” Cynthia Stuenkel, an endocrinologist at the University of California, San Diego, and president of the North American Menopause Society, said when contacted by a reporter. But the cases have been described in isolation from one another, and no one has documented the incidents scientifically. The news service subsequently found that the phenomenon has been reported anecdotally for at least five years on message boards of VIN, a professional organization and online community of veterinarians. The issue was brought to the attention of the VIN News Service by a clinician who has seen three such cases in his Bradenton, Fla., practice in the past year. Symptoms of hormonal imbalance also may occur in pets that ingest the medications, either by licking where product was applied or eating an improperly stored or discarded transdermal patch or similar item. The users then handle and snuggle their animals, unwittingly transferring the drug to the pets. The problem appears to stem from the use by pet owners of hormone replacement treatments in the form of lotions, gels or sprays that are applied to the arms - especially inner elbows and wrists - or legs. Medical doctors in the human realm likewise are unfamiliar with the situation, a Veterinary Information Network (VIN) News Service inquiry found. The phenomenon frequently stumps veterinary practitioners sometimes patients go undiagnosed for weeks or months because clinicians don’t recognize the connection. ![]() Animals of both genders experience fur loss. Male dogs present with enlarged mammary glands and abnormally small penises. Spayed dogs and young female puppies are showing up in veterinary exam rooms with markedly swollen vulvas as if they are in heat. The spreading popularity of topical hormone treatments in people - especially but not exclusively menopausal women - is having unintended medical consequences for the users’ pets. Lisa Pope, Stevenson Ranch Veterinary Center Recovery took a year following end of exposure. Books & VINcyclopedia of Diseases (Formerly Associate)ĭramatic Symptoms: Brandi, a Cavalier King Charles spaniel in Los Angeles, was accidentally exposed to her owner’s hormone replacement therapy skin cream for a year beginning at 3 months of age. ![]() ![]()
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