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RE: Sick snake?

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Posted by: dekaybrown at Fri Apr 22 21:19:40 2011  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by dekaybrown ]  
   

I am sorry so late, and probably the snake has died by now..

You are describing the symptoms of dehydration.

I have found that some garter snakes will be fussy about the quality of the water in their bowl, and others will drink swill.

sadly I had to witness this same thing roughly 5 times before my research led me to the data on dehydration.

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Severe dehydration is a serious condition that may lead to Fatal Shock, Acidosis (accumulation of acid or depletion of alkaline's in the blood and body tissues: symptoms such as weakness, malaise, muscle twitching, involuntary movement, cardiac arrhythmias, disorientation, and a coma may occur); and the accumulations of waste products in the body, as in Uremia ( a condition in which there is an excess in the blood of urea, creatinine, and other nitrogenous end products of protein and amino acid metabolism, this is often the result of kidney failure).

a snake that is dehydrated will often convulse and bite itself.

I only wish I had read your post sooner.
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Regards,
Wayne A. Harvey
Thamnophis US
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