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brigs Feb 21, 2004 09:17 AM

My adult female has recently become lathargic and can't balance herself and sometimes falls off a branch. I thought mabey dehydration. I started giving her vitamin/electolyte supplents. She takes if from the mist bottle and then starts salivating,,,any ideas?

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epollak Feb 21, 2004 10:30 AM

The excess vitamins will likely do more harm than good. They're very tough on kidneys & liver. The only thing you can do is to get it to the vet's ASAP. You'll likely need a blood panel to give you any kind of diagnosis. It could be anyuthing from renal or kidney failure to infection to egg-binding. But what you describe requires IMMEDIATE veterinary intervention if the cham has any chance at all of surviving.
Ed

Carlton Feb 23, 2004 05:50 PM

Ed is right, but I have noticed that chams who salivate when drinking are very dehydrated. It could be due to her cage environment, not enough spraying or humidity, or due to kidney damage from past care (including oversupplementation). If her kidneys are damaged she won't be able to keep herself hydrated even if the amount of water is correct.

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