Hey, Lee!

I think what you're talking about is Metronidazole also known as Flagyl for humans. It's often used to treat Giardia in humans and boas and also thought to stimulate activity in the gut. I read on someone's website that it also soothes the stomach so I tried my own little version of it with a farmed Anery Leticia that was regurging like mad. No problems since. Here's what I did:

A lot of times, regurgitation is caused by parasites. The snake was too small to extract a fecal sample and wasn't giving me any of her own accord. Since she was farmed and vomiting, I assumed that she had internal parasites. I've always found that a combination of Metronidazole and Panacur were a good start for internals giving 2 doses 2 weeks apart. The guy I got her from suggested giving an intermediary dose the week inbetween (meaning giving three doses a week apart.) I tried that and was happy with the results. I'll be making that a standard practiced from here on out. That's what I'd do if I were you. In this case, these doses finally resulted in a defecation (there's that gut stimulation!) allowing me the luxury of fecal floats and smears. These showed that the snake also had flukes which, in my experience, are pretty uncommon. This we had to treat with Droncit. However, from my experience, the Metronidazole and the Panacur should probably get you where you need to go until you can get a fecal sample run. The flukes-to make a horrible pun-were really just a fluke and I wouldn't worry with the Droncit until you have evidence that the snake needs it.

Just some thoughts. Hope they helped!

Aaron

Oh, the "Metronidazole as a stomach soother" and the "three doses instead of two" were ideas from other people. I'm kind of new to the forum and I don't want to take credit for them myself, but I don't want to give out toher people's names if that's bad. Not sure of the etiquette here...

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