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Cryptosporidium/ regurg and vomiting
- Thread starter charlie1
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bitsy
Owned by Corns since 1991
Yes. There are plenty of rather more boring reasons for regurges, none of which involve chronic disease or illness.
The times I've experienced it with mine, is when I've been moving them up to the next sized food and I've done it a bit too soon.
Other causes I can think of are listed in my post on page one.
The times I've experienced it with mine, is when I've been moving them up to the next sized food and I've done it a bit too soon.
Other causes I can think of are listed in my post on page one.
charlie1
New member
Wow what great responses!
I was not trying to infer that regurg/vomiting (I will call it vomiting) or what ever semantic term you want to call it is always related to Crypto. I was intrigued by the definition because it makes sense. If crypto causes a swelling of the stomach lining then you would expect the snake to expel the swallowed food before it begins to digest and move to the small intestines. So if the vomited material comes up mostly digested then maybe there is not much cause for concern. What appears to be the case no matter what is that crypto is poorly understood and for now there is no effective treatment in snakes(there is no effective treatment in people either your immune system has to destroy the pathogen).
Something else my research seems to show is that crypto is killed by freezing at temps below 22 Fahrenheit( -5.56C). Depending on the temperature of your freezer freezing mice food before they are fed might help prevent infection as would avoiding feeding wild caught food.
I was not trying to infer that regurg/vomiting (I will call it vomiting) or what ever semantic term you want to call it is always related to Crypto. I was intrigued by the definition because it makes sense. If crypto causes a swelling of the stomach lining then you would expect the snake to expel the swallowed food before it begins to digest and move to the small intestines. So if the vomited material comes up mostly digested then maybe there is not much cause for concern. What appears to be the case no matter what is that crypto is poorly understood and for now there is no effective treatment in snakes(there is no effective treatment in people either your immune system has to destroy the pathogen).
Something else my research seems to show is that crypto is killed by freezing at temps below 22 Fahrenheit( -5.56C). Depending on the temperature of your freezer freezing mice food before they are fed might help prevent infection as would avoiding feeding wild caught food.
carnivorouszoo
Crazy Critter Lady
Personally I think any good snake owner should. I take all my animals in once a year. Its going to be tough getting fecals on all the hatchlings just before I put them on my site, but I will do it. I don't want it to be blamed on me if they get sick with the new owners. My cat gets in once a year for a check, fecal and shots. Why not my snakes at least get a fecal?
Ok now I do not mean that anyone who doesn't is a bad owner just that my oppinion of a good owner is someone who uses prevenative steps instead of just waiting for an emergency.
Um this is coming out all offensive and I do NOT mean it that way :awcrap:
wade
Save The Humans
Would it be more preventive if you had fecals done on your snake every week? Daily?
Cats and domestic snakes are quite different. Both in the food they eat and the environment they live in. If your snakes are healthy and fed frozen mice the odds of picking up a parasite is near zero.
I bet your vet loves you.
Cats and domestic snakes are quite different. Both in the food they eat and the environment they live in. If your snakes are healthy and fed frozen mice the odds of picking up a parasite is near zero.
I bet your vet loves you.
TripleMoonsExotic
I <3 Stripes!
To add to what Wade said...
Cryto testing is not a standard fecal and needs done at least three times before you could be reasonably confident the snake does not have the parasite. That will get very expensive if you're planning on testing every hatchling you produce. It is doubtful you would even recover those costs with a sale.
Cryto testing is not a standard fecal and needs done at least three times before you could be reasonably confident the snake does not have the parasite. That will get very expensive if you're planning on testing every hatchling you produce. It is doubtful you would even recover those costs with a sale.
TandJ
Ole' Stoic Viper...
The strain of crypto/parvo in mice is not the same strain that resides in snakes and reptiles.. Like I said, from what I have researched the mouse strain can throw a false crypto reading in a snake.. Probably one of the reasons why they suggest at least three acid stain tests in a row..
Crypto essentially causes the stomach lining to become distended thus the appearance of the lump in the belly section of the snake.. I wish the old computer didn't crash as I would have been able to retrieve the sites to post here.. I totally agree, cyrto is likely more prevelant than we are aware..