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I recently had my first and hopefully last experience with mouth rot AND an upper ri in the same snake. She is being treated with baytril and nolvasan (per vets instructions). Has anyone else ever had to treat using those meds for both symptoms? She is doing much better now and the swelling has gone down noticably. I have noticed that some of her teeth has dropped when I clean out her mouth along with minor bleeding, is this normal and do they return? So far, she has gooten two shots of baytril and i clean her mouth 2x daily. Many thanks for comments and assistance. -Shawn

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1.3 BCI
0.2 White Spot Geckos
0.0.1 Marbled Gecko
0.0.1 Flowerhorn
0.0.1 Green Terror

Nolvosan is excellent for cleaning things out. It's what the vets use when cleaning up animals for surgery and in stronger dilutions you can even use it to clean cages.

A little bit of bleeding is normal, it just means that while you're cleaning you're hitting the healthy tissue under the infected stuff.

~jenny
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"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words."
- Anna Sewell (1820-1878)

It would be worth while getting him checked for flagellate protozoans. It is not unusual for protozons to multiply at the same time as the bacteria causing mouth rot.

The vet books I've seen say that mouth rot treated with vitamin C and antibiotics heals quicker than with antibiotics alone.

Good luck with the boa.

Paul Hollander

Does anyone know if "Citricidal" has any Vitamin C benefit?
jsc
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