Your tortoise probably would have died anyway but vitamin A injections can be fatal. I would caution others to be very careful if vitamin A injections are considered. For information on vitamin A see: http://www.maturtlerescue.org/vatamin-a-toxicity.htm
Vitamin A toxicity

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• **Emergency : Rescue Sulcata soft shell uri etc** - hunterjackson, Sat Feb 11 19:47:59 2006
• RE: **Emergency : Rescue Sulcata soft shell uri etc** - joeysgreen, Sun Feb 12 19:46:10 2006
• RE: **Emergency : Rescue Sulcata soft shell uri etc** - hunterjackson, Sun Feb 12 21:10:07 2006
• RE: Update... - hunterjackson, Mon Feb 13 18:21:22 2006
• RE: He died... - hunterjackson, Mon Feb 13 20:55:40 2006
• Caution about vitamin A injections - Ivory Tortoise, Tue Feb 14 13:39:43 2006
• RE: Caution about vitamin A injections - hunterjackson, Tue Feb 14 21:42:40 2006