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jleddy
at Tue Feb 28 20:29:10 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jleddy ]
I have a baby columbian that has a medical issue that's got myself and the 2 reptile vets in the area confused.
She has a small amount of tissue protruding from her vent- it is not a prolapse. The tissue is pink and viable, but swollen and protruding slightly (only a couple centimeters) fron her vent.
The first vet gave me a topical anti-inflammatory liquid, to be mixed with a powdered antibiotic and applied to the affected tissue twice daily for 10-14 days. After doing a swab of the tissue, and examining it under the microscope, he believed the tissue had been irritated by something and was slightly infected. The tissue shrunk a little, but did not recede.
The second vet I took her to initially said the same thing, but when I explained that we'd already been through that, he suggested shrinking the tissue and trying to "force" it back in with a suture to hold the vent closed. This resulted in nothing but tremendous agitation on her part and me getting bit severla times for even trying to examine the area. When the suture was removed, the tissue still protruded.
The odd thing, is that it doesn't seem painful to her, she has no problem with me poking at it or touching it (except for the suture experience) and she eats and defecates/passes uraates normally.
Does anyone have any idea what this could be? The vets in my area are out of ideas and this has been going on for a month now.
I'm putting a call in to the vet school a couple hours away tomorrow to see if they'd be of any more help, but it sounds like nobody knows what this is. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
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 What's wrong with this snake? - jleddy, Tue Feb 28 20:29:10 2006
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