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dianedfisher
at Thu Feb 9 13:52:35 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by dianedfisher ]
Have someone posting on another forum who is attempting currettage/debridement of infected gum tissue and treatment with peroxide and betadine iodine swabs. It's harder on chameleons than on water dragons because the chams fight so darn hard to get away and stress so easily, but once you get their mouth open, use a popsicle stick or metal feeding tube to keep it open and swab with 50:1 water to betadine solution-wring the swab well before you insert it in the mouth. Then use a flat toothpick to gently scrape the infected tissue. The caseous like material will be imbedded in the gum tissue and must be removed. After the currettage, swab again. Then repeat the swabbing twice daily and the currettage every other day until the gum tissue shows no further signs of infection. Continue swabbing for a few days after the currettage treatments have been stopped. it's a lot of work and usually requires the assistance of another person (especially for a chameleon) You can use Nolvasan in place of the iodine if you have it. Good luck. diane
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- mouth rot - carpetliz, Wed Feb 8 23:01:51 2006
- RE: mouth rot - kinyonga, Thu Feb 9 07:24:24 2006
 RE: mouth rot - dianedfisher, Thu Feb 9 13:52:35 2006
- RE: mouth rot - jonnyreptile, Thu Feb 9 21:54:21 2006
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