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mrachelr
at Thu Jun 7 19:47:32 2012 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by mrachelr ]
Thank you for all your replies/suggestions. I do want to clarify that I am not looking to home treat solely. I am looking for anything we can do IN ADDITION to the vet care. I was thinking along the lines of when a child has croup you steam them to help with the symptoms, maybe this would work to help improve the effectiveness of the antibiotic, or at least make the snake more comfortable.
I also want to clarify that I was not upset with the vet for prescribing Baytril first off, but I am familiar with the belief that it is a magic fix it elixir, and is often overprescribed, lessening it's effectiveness. I just wasn't impressed with their services, we have been there once before and had crappy service then too.
I am NOW however slightly frustrated with our vet. My husband took him back in this afternoon. They refused to do a culture as they say they don't do them for reptiles (really?), and prescribed Baytril again... (11.4 mg/ml orally .66 cc 1x a day) along with an enegy supplement to help him keep weight on (2x a day) which all together seems like it would do more harm then good as it's 3 forcefeeding/dropper feedings a day, maybe I'm wrong but that seems like a LOT of additional stress on an already compromised animal. They are the only reptile vet within 100 miles so our choices are limited, I think I'll be hitting the phonebook to see if I can't find someone to do a culture.
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- Baytril didn't work...URI help! - mrachelr, Wed Jun 6 11:34:13 2012
- RE: Baytril didn't work...URI help! - kangaskritters, Wed Jun 6 14:01:23 2012
- RE: Baytril didn't work...URI help! - amcroyals, Wed Jun 6 14:13:31 2012
- RE: Baytril didn't work...URI help! - Feathers_First, Wed Jun 6 17:28:01 2012
- RE: Baytril didn't work...URI help! - exoticball, Wed Jun 6 18:05:42 2012
- RE: Baytril didn't work...URI help! - toshamc, Wed Jun 6 18:09:03 2012
- RE: Baytril didn't work...URI help! - illbeyoursoldier, Wed Jun 6 20:32:54 2012
- RE: Baytril didn't work...URI help! - illbeyoursoldier, Wed Jun 6 20:35:47 2012
RE: Baytril didn't work...URI help! - mrachelr, Thu Jun 7 19:47:32 2012
- RE: Baytril didn't work...URI help! - jdcobra, Thu Jun 7 21:35:24 2012
- RE: Baytril didn't work...URI help! - JPLReptiles, Fri Jun 8 12:45:45 2012
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