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Can someone tell me the symptoms?What exactly this is? Is it worse than coccidia?What about Metronidazole? Side effects of this med?

Really?? a beardie that has trich?? I sit at a microscope all day and deal with many different body parts (human) especially female/male genital tract and from what i know about trich is that it is a sexually transmitted disease. (i am totally new to the world of beardies) I have heard of it in cows/bulls and ?maybe pigeons,,,, usually its asymptomatic but can cause problems with females/calves---I HAVE NO EXPERIENCE in that field however. It is a single celled parasite if that helps. Sounds like an internet search to me!
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0.0.1 Bearded Dragon (Eddie)
2.0.0 Dogs (Black German Shepherd-Nicholas, Black Lab-Cooper)
1.1.0 Budgies (Kia and Simon)
0.0.1 ?Fiddler Crab (Crusty)
0.0.25 Various Fishies (Freshwater)
2.1.0 Hubby and kids (Boy and a Girl)

I got looking into a bit more and i only found a couple of references to it in reptiles but one said "found in the urogenital tract" but when i went to go to the website the page couldn't be found,,, sorry ,,,, not much help.
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0.0.1 Bearded Dragon (Eddie)
2.0.0 Dogs (Black German Shepherd-Nicholas, Black Lab-Cooper)
1.1.0 Budgies (Kia and Simon)
0.0.1 ?Fiddler Crab (Crusty)
0.0.25 Various Fishies (Freshwater)
2.1.0 Hubby and kids (Boy and a Girl)

Trichomonas are flagellates that are part of the normal flora in the lower digestive and urogenital tract of reptiles. They are generally nonpathogenic, but trichomoniasis occurs when the numbers get out of whack (stress after shipping, illness, etc). Metronidazole is a very safe antibiotic and antiprotozoal drug that kills many species of flagellates. I wouldn't worry about it too much as long as you follow the veterinarian's advice and treatment plan.
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Stacey