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serpentcity
at Sun Jan 4 16:44:57 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by serpentcity ]
1) Other causes of regurgitation can relate to anatomical abnormalities such as growths or strictures due to underlying disease processes or injury to the esophagus.
2)sometimes examination of the regurged item can give clues to how long the food item was kept down, ie the degree of digestion. Food items may be held down for fairly widely varying lengths of time, ie early bacterial gastritis vs. Cryptosporidiosis.
In this case, it sounds more like some kind of anatomical problem, but there's not much to go on. If this snake eventually was able to swallow and keep down the meal, then great. If not, waiting about a week and trying a smaller food item would be the proper plan. Obviously having it examined by someone very experienced with BP's would be nice. Scott J. Michaels DVM
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- snake throw up? - jpevenson, Sat Jan 3 01:11:58 2004
- RE: snake throw up? - sapphire_snake, Sat Jan 3 07:46:26 2004
 Some answers.... - serpentcity, Sun Jan 4 16:44:57 2004
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