Mouthrot is a relatively common occurence in chameleons.

The main trouble with it is that if the area hasn't been cleaned out it will recur most of the time. Chameleon's pus is more like cottage cheese and the medication doesn't seem to get through it to kill all the germs. Also, although baytril is a wide-spectrum antibiotic, if the vet didn't take a sample of the pus and send if for culture you won't know if baytril is the right med. to kill the germ that is causing the mouth rot. (You are seeing improvements so it might be....but some antibiotics are better than others at killing certain germs.)



I've never heard of baytril only being given once a week. In my experience it was given orally daily.



You said..."but it is also leaving scar tissue"...do you mean where they are injecting the baytril or in the mouth? There is often discoloration around the injection site in chameleons and it usually goes away but the scars from the mouth rot take longer and may never go away completely.



Hope this helps!

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