So unfortunately my little guy Ihysius (he's almost two and just over 3 feet in length) developed the beginning of scale rot while I left him with a friend of my partners (who turned out to be not nearly as responsible as she claimed :mad:) for a little bit while getting some personal things sorted out.
I brought him to my local exotics vet ASAP this past Friday and little guy is home in his tub, doing well enough.
The vet prescribed 0.2 cc injection of baytril intramuscular 1x a day. Also to wipe his belly down with chlorhexidine gluconate 2x daily.
The vet instructed me on how to inject him, parallel but away from the spine at a 45 degree angle between the scales, pulling back on the syringe to make sure there was no blood in it (so as to not inject into a vein) before injecting him and to only inject in the first 1/3 of his body right where there's enough 'meat' to get the syringe in the muscle.
Today he got his fourth injection and so far, so good in terms of no blood and he *seems* be doing ok.
Worrying thing is he's developed a swelling where I inject him, not huge, but I can tell.
He doesn't seem to be in any pain and the area certainly isn't swelling or red or leaking.
I thought I was varying the injection site enough but will make sure to rotate it as far as possible.
Does anyone have any ideas? Tips?
Sorry guys, I've never had to inject any of my pets before, parrot or reptile.
