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I have called around to several pharmacies and medical stores. Noone wants to sell me any IV fluids. The nearest reptile vet is 2 hours away and they won't take me unless I have an appointment. Can an IV solution be homemade?
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Deborah
0.0.1 blue tail monitor
0.1 peach throat monitor
3.1.1 bearded dragons
1.1 furry 4-legged
barking kids
0.1 of the 2-legged
scaleless/furless variety
Maybe if one were a chemist with the proper knowledge, materials, and facilities to insure sterility. Other than that, no.
Try contacting a regular vet locally and explain the situation. I'm sure you can find someone capable of doing a "simple" fluid injection that will also show you how and supply the materials to do it. I took a prior animal into an emergency care vet clinic, which does not have anyone on hand that handles reptiles, but they were able to do an injection upon specific request. I neglected to "learn" how to do it at that time, myself, and also acquire materials, but I'm sure it would have been possible (and better).
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2.4.0 uromastyx geyri (Saharan/Nigerian)
0.0.4 uromastyx hardwickii (Indian)
2.3.0 uromastyx macfadyeni (Somalian)
1.3.0 uromastyx ocellata (Sudanese)
"Yes, it's a problem. No, I don't want to talk about it."
I have an Idea where you can get the IV solution from either IM me through yahoo my logon is Yhetti2 or email me at cmrinpta@aol.com direcally and I will give you my phone number and you can call me.
as the first poster said, you should be able to get someone to do a sub-cutaneous injection of lactated ringer's solution into a lizard....I'm lucky enough to work for a vet who sees herps, but when my uro needed a boost I just took home 12cc of the LRS and some 25 gauge needles and did the injections into the loose skin of her armpits of 5-6 cc into each side. see if you can get a vet to do this for you if you aren't able to do it yourself.
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Sue
currently living with me:
0.1 Western hognose (Sola)
1.0 Crested gecko (Gator)
0.1 Niger Uromastyx (Brit)
0.1 'found in someone's garage' kitty (Terra)
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