Antibiotics

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Originally Posted by DaNeal31

Vet says it's a mild case. Yes she's a herp vet. We're doing betadine soaks and silver sulfadiazine cream. And he came to me with a stuck shed and the beginning of the scale rot. So I have him on paper towels during treatment.

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Based on the picture is is a mild case indeed and I would trust the vet one that, and the course of treatment prescribed for a mild case fits, you will see progress however it will take time my guess in a shed or two it will be gone.

If I had a snake come in this way I would have sent it back personally, hopefully the sender makes it right.

My concern is that it could be like 4 weeks before he sheds again and I definitely don't want it to progress that long. We're seeing the vet again today actually. I was just wondering if the antibiotics was bad that's why she didn't do it.

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Originally Posted by DaNeal31

My concern is that it could be like 4 weeks before he sheds again and I definitely don't want it to progress that long. We're seeing the vet again today actually. I was just wondering if the antibiotics was bad that's why she didn't do it.

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Scale rot heal but it takes time, anti-biotics are not bad but they should not be prescribe unless necessary.

Tylan 50 subcutaneous injections have always fixed my problems. Just gotta do a little reading on it.

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This is not a reptile-specific answer, but in general there are good reasons to avoid using antibiotics until they are really necessary, in humans as well as in animals. One reason is that antibiotics can have an impact on the various assorted beneficial bacteria that are involved in digestion (and all sorts of other bodily processes that we don't necessarily even know about yet, but digestion is a big one).
The other reason is that every use of antibiotics increases the chances that more of the bacteria will become resistant. Antibiotic resistance is a major issue on a global public health scale when diseases mutate so that the drugs used to treat them stop working in whole populations; and also on an individual scale when someone has a persistent or recurring infection that stops responding to treatment after awhile. Ever hear of someone with a horrific un-treatable flesh-eating infection? That's a victim of antibiotic resistance.

Basically, what you really don't want is to treat the scale rot with antibiotics, but a handful of germs manage to hang around somewhere that weren't killed off by that round, and then reinfect the snake later. Do that a couple of times, and you've basically selectively bread a super-bug of a scale rot infection that doesn't respond to available drugs. Or that no longer responds to the safest drugs, and you have to resort to the ones with nastier side effects.

Basically, if you want antibiotics to be effective when you really need them, don't use them unless you really have to.

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Originally Posted by Lunanzar88

Tylan 50 subcutaneous injections have always fixed my problems. Just gotta do a little reading on it.

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Got to love when people who are not vet recommend just any anti-biotics :rolleyes:, because really nothing like prescribing anti-biotics that are not necessary or adequate for the issue.

Well sorry you don't like it..... but it works every time...

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I didn't recommend anything I gave my experience.

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And it's not prescribed it's over the counter

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Originally Posted by Lunanzar88

And it's not prescribed it's over the counter

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Exactly so you use anti-biotics even though you have no clue if its needed or not or the right anti-biotic for the issue you are dealing with.....never mind long term consequences. Sadly that is what inexperience people do at the expense of their animals.