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Well I took one of my rescue girls into the vet on 1/30 she had a RI. I was given Baytril 1 shot a day for two weeks, I read your messages days earlier about all the other meds that can treat RI.

Well I thought she was better, she starting eating a little more (she is picky) but I thought I heard some wheezing again on saturady but that was right after she ate a big rat just I thought it might be related to that.

But tonight she was rubbing her face like crazy against the cage so I took her out and checked her mouth again and she has bubbles at the back of her mouth again.

So any suggestions for meds when I head to the vet tomorrow, I am going to be more informed on the options this time. She is my first to ever have a RI. I read some can be expensive, which sucks because it costs me $50 alone to just talk to the vet (darn high cost of living in LA) so if the other meds are expensive else where I can only imagine what they will be here. any help would be great thanks!!

I have used an incubator in the past to solve an RI problem. I kept it about 80-85 and around 75% humidity and it worked wonders.

If Baytril is administered in the correct dose, i.e. 0.2ml per kg of body weight, injected subcutaneously, and your temps are correct, it is one of the safest and best medications to use for RI. You say that your BP has bubbles at the back of it's throat; snakes breath through the small hole at the FRONT of the mouth, and if that is clean and clear, I doubt that the condition is RI.
The rubbing of the nose indicates that the snake is trying to shed, that is how the snake starts the shed, by rubbing it's nose on something to loosen the skin.
When you took your BP to the Vet, did the Vet say it had RI, or did you tell the Vet that you thought that it had RI?

Well she is not in shed. And yes I mentioned the RI, she weighs around 758 grams they told me to to give .17 Does that sound right? She is wheezing again, isn't that a sign? How should I approach the vet tonight? Do I not mention I think it is a RI, or do I just tell the symptoms and see what he says. Temps are find in her cage, I check them a few times a day.