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My Boa has URI and I am treating it with increased Humidity slightly elevated temps and a Baytril.

Since Baytril is not recommended to be injected more than once we have converted the prescription over to Oral doses.

My question is that origional dose was .7 cc every 5 days for 5 treatments. Now with the oral treatment the vet has me giving the boa an oral injection daily at the same dose .7 cc for 28 days.

To me this seams like overmedication. Something like every 48hrs for a week seams like a more typical dose. Anyone have any thoughts?

Very little literature is available on Oral doses due to it being only a recent treatment regimen.

I hate to second guess the vet as we have a healthy working relationship but he doesn't specialize in reptiles mainly other companion animals.

Thanks

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Jeremy

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>>My question is that origional dose was .7 cc every 5 days for 5 treatments. Now with the oral treatment the vet has me giving the boa an oral injection daily at the same dose .7 cc for 28 days.
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>>To me this seams like overmedication. Something like every 48hrs for a week seams like a more typical dose. Anyone have any thoughts?
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>>Very little literature is available on Oral doses due to it being only a recent treatment regimen.
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>>I hate to second guess the vet as we have a healthy working relationship but he doesn't specialize in reptiles mainly other companion animals.
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>>Thanks
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giving baytril orally means it takes a lot more of the drug over a longer period of time for enough of it to actually get into the animal's system compared to a direct injection with a much smaller dose. Oral baytril is diluted - not concentrated like an injection. I was treating an adult brooks king orally with baytril recently at .5 cc once a day until it was all used up (came out to be 2 weeks). Since your boa is probably a larger animal compared to my brooks and the dose being about the same between the two animals, then it would be logical that your animal would need to be dosed a lot longer than what mine was. Also, due to the less effective results from oral dosing, the baytril may not clear up a stubborn case of RI. You may notice symptoms returning within 2 weeks after the last dose. At that time your vet may need to switch to a different antibiotic. Mine had mentioned that there was another antibiotic (can't remember the name of it) that could be injected without the bad side effect you sometimes see with the injectible baytril...but I seem to have lucked out and so far the snake hasn't regressed so I didn't have to go back.
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PHWyvern

Yup, I like this answer although I haven't yet needed to use Baytril for any snakes. Keep in mind that there are 2 available strengths for injection. Small animal Baytril is 22.7mg/ml and Large animal is 100mg/ml. If a smaller doseage size is easier you could use the more potent formula.

>>>My question is that origional dose was .7 cc every 5 days for 5 treatments. Now with the oral treatment the vet has me giving the boa an oral injection daily at the same dose .7 cc for 28 days.
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>>>>To me this seams like overmedication. Something like every 48hrs for a week seams like a more typical dose. Anyone have any thoughts?
>>>>
>>>>Very little literature is available on Oral doses due to it being only a recent treatment regimen.
>>>>
>>>>I hate to second guess the vet as we have a healthy working relationship but he doesn't specialize in reptiles mainly other companion animals.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
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>>giving baytril orally means it takes a lot more of the drug over a longer period of time for enough of it to actually get into the animal's system compared to a direct injection with a much smaller dose. Oral baytril is diluted - not concentrated like an injection. I was treating an adult brooks king orally with baytril recently at .5 cc once a day until it was all used up (came out to be 2 weeks). Since your boa is probably a larger animal compared to my brooks and the dose being about the same between the two animals, then it would be logical that your animal would need to be dosed a lot longer than what mine was. Also, due to the less effective results from oral dosing, the baytril may not clear up a stubborn case of RI. You may notice symptoms returning within 2 weeks after the last dose. At that time your vet may need to switch to a different antibiotic. Mine had mentioned that there was another antibiotic (can't remember the name of it) that could be injected without the bad side effect you sometimes see with the injectible baytril...but I seem to have lucked out and so far the snake hasn't regressed so I didn't have to go back.
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>>PHWyvern

I am treating ball pythons for a uri now my vet has me nebulizing them every other day. I am also injecting the every day with tylosin. There are some other ver good drugw for uri's, amikacin and gentamicin. I know that my vet is very knowledgeable about snakes because he breeds snakes. If you need anymore info on this you can email or call me abcs_exotics@yahoo.com 940 781 6718