Pied male can't hold down food

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Originally Posted by bcr229

After a regurge the snake shouldn't be fed again for 2-3 weeks to give it time to recover and rehydrate.

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I know, but he didn't knew it. It was too late when he asked us, and his pastel passed in the same day :(

Vet took a culture from his rear and a stool sample. He didn't see anything in the stool and the culture was sent to a lab.
He gave him a b complex injection and baytril and gentamicin for me to administer over the next week

He said to soak him twice a day and try to feed him small about a week after treatment


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Why are we giving a antibiotics for an unknown?
I would wait for samples and verdict from lab.

I went to the vet I was able to find and this was the treatment that he recommended

More of a vent on the vet.
If they don't know what/IF anything is wrong then how much of a dose should be given?
This is my point.
Just out of curiosity, what is the exact temp of the hot spot inside the enclosure?

I'll measure again when I get home

There's some kind of problem, hopefully these lab results at least tell me something

I honestly wasn't a huge fan of the vet but didn't find a lot

I too wonder why a vet would prescribe a bacterial antibiotic for something unknown. Baytril is already hard on a reptiles system killing both harmful and good bacteria not to mention it dehydrates them as well. So now your snake not only doesn't eat and regurgitates which will dehydrate it, it now is having any good gut flora it had killed by the Baytril as well the dehydrating effect of Baytril. At least your vet did a culture so hopefully in a few days you will know if its a "bug" problem. The vet didn't request a blood panel though? Blood panels are good at finding problems but generally are expensive. They run $93 up here but I have it done on any of my pets the first time a vet has to see them so its in their file on record.

TheBeanFarm.com sells NutriBAC, which is a reptile probiotic that helps snakes bounce back from a regurge or loss of gut flora due to antibiotic treatments. I'd pick some up for your little guy. I dust a damp feeder with a pinch of it.