Kali
02-25-2009, 06:16 PM
Hi there,
I bought a nice snow a couple of months ago. And unexperienced idiot that I am in buying new snakes, I apparently bought one with an infection.
When I held her at her previous owners's place, she puffed a few times, but I thought that it was because I was a stranger to her, strange smell or something like that. But afterwards the puffing became hissing and wheezing so...something wrong.
Apart from that, she is acting completely normal as far as I can see. She eats very well, has shed nicely in one piece, and doesn't act any different from my other snakes... I went to the vet with her (believe he's a good reptile vet, highly recommended by different ppl) And he gave me antibiotics. So I gave her the medicine (she did NOT like that) for two weeks, then another medicine because in the feacal check they found...eh...don't know the word in english, some unicellular wich shouldn't be there or at least not in such high amounts.
At that time she was still wheezing, but the vet told me to keep her warm and wait a month because sometimes snakes have trouble getting the mucus out of their lungs and that can take a while. And as long as she was acting normal and eating well, I could wait a while, but he said to come back when anything got worse or she stopped eating or well anything that's not normal.
ok, the month is over, I have repeated as ordered the medicin against the unicellulars, nothing got worse or abnormal, but the wheezing is still there. So I guess it's back to the vet with her.
I believe he was going to take a throat swab now.
Anyone have an opinion over this? I always thought that a snake that was ill wouldn't eat anymore, or at least eat less, or act different, or something ...
I bought a nice snow a couple of months ago. And unexperienced idiot that I am in buying new snakes, I apparently bought one with an infection.
When I held her at her previous owners's place, she puffed a few times, but I thought that it was because I was a stranger to her, strange smell or something like that. But afterwards the puffing became hissing and wheezing so...something wrong.
Apart from that, she is acting completely normal as far as I can see. She eats very well, has shed nicely in one piece, and doesn't act any different from my other snakes... I went to the vet with her (believe he's a good reptile vet, highly recommended by different ppl) And he gave me antibiotics. So I gave her the medicine (she did NOT like that) for two weeks, then another medicine because in the feacal check they found...eh...don't know the word in english, some unicellular wich shouldn't be there or at least not in such high amounts.
At that time she was still wheezing, but the vet told me to keep her warm and wait a month because sometimes snakes have trouble getting the mucus out of their lungs and that can take a while. And as long as she was acting normal and eating well, I could wait a while, but he said to come back when anything got worse or she stopped eating or well anything that's not normal.
ok, the month is over, I have repeated as ordered the medicin against the unicellulars, nothing got worse or abnormal, but the wheezing is still there. So I guess it's back to the vet with her.
I believe he was going to take a throat swab now.
Anyone have an opinion over this? I always thought that a snake that was ill wouldn't eat anymore, or at least eat less, or act different, or something ...