Whats funny is IBD has been on my minda alot lately as well, but for different reasons...

About 4 months ago I sold a perfect snake to someone, and after 4 months I get an e-mail saying its showing Nuerological problems, and that he is taking it to the vet, well the vet agreed that it MIGHT be IBD, only furthering the fear the guy had that it was IBD. So I contacted him, and asked when the symptoms started showing...he said basically it was out of the blue, and started on Saturday...I asked what the temps where...a few days later he came back with..that he has always used Zoomed Heat pads, and when he temped the pad it was readying 136-149 depending on where he temped it, but when he temped the inside of the enclosure it read 108.....

Well I know that extreme temps with small snakes can cause leathal results, and some of the symptoms of extreme heat exposure is nuero problems...I know the snake doesn't have IBD, its just the whole Idea is Scary...as the guy has a nice collection of snakes...

I really wish IBD was talked about more, as its so easy to freak out...and I am not saying people shouldn't freak out, its just there is so much confusion about it...And what miffs me is that it seems many vets are quick to pull the IBD thing...without asking more questions...I wonder how many snakes have been put down only to go on and find out it wasn't IBD...I would like to see some numbers of snakes put down...as to how many actually proved out to have IBD and how many proved not to have it..it would be interesting to see how many actual cases of IBD there are, as it seems like IBD is one of those "Mystery" sicknesses, that looms over everyone...but no real numbers have been shown as to how big the problem really is.
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