Has anyone ever given this to a snake?
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Colostrum
Iblis
May 12, 2004 03:42 PM
Replies (3)
fredhammes
May 12, 2004 05:55 PM
Just curious. Why would you give colostrum to a snake?
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GratefulFred
oldherper
May 13, 2004 08:36 PM
Yes. I have given Hyperimmune Bovine Colostrum, in addition to supportive therapy, in an unsuccessful attempt to treat a D'Albert's Python for Cryptosporidium serpentis. The idea is that the HBC will have antibodies for Cryptosporidium, which is true. The problem is that reptiles are affected by Cryptosporidium serpentis, cattle are affected by C.parvus. There is not sufficient data yet to know whether the antibodies for C. parvus will have any titer against C. serpentis. The treatment on the Python mentioned above was started too late, the animal was already beyond recovery when I attempted to start treatment and died from multi-organ failure due to extreme dehydration.
Colostrum is the fluid obtained from the first milking of a mammal after it gives birth to offspring. It has a very high concentration of antibodies to essentially every pathogen that the mother has been exposed to and is what gives the offspring's immune system a "jump-start".
Iblis
May 18, 2004 12:13 AM
Crypto treatment is exactly what I was wondering about.
Well, at least the colostrum didn't kill the snake.
