Is my Ball Python Ok??!?!??? HELP

Good links with a lot of info.

URI
http://www.anapsid.org/rti.html

Medicating snakes
http://www.anapsid.org/signs2.html

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Originally Posted by Maixx

If your keeping it, and if its better off with you, then you should be taking it to the vet ASAP, like in the next day or so. For an URI you will probably be giving Batyril injections, and if its really bad, nebulizer treatments.

Are you prepared to do this?

You have other reptiles, quarantine this one or you could be treating them all for this

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Vet taken care of, he is ordering Batyril and should come the beginning of the week. Hopefully its not viral cause then it would just be a waste of time sad to say..

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Originally Posted by schiffy

Vet taken care of, he is ordering Batyril and should come the beginning of the week. Hopefully its not viral cause then it would just be a waste of time sad to say..

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I hope this works for you. Good luck! :)

He was given his injection of Baytril according to his weight, how the vet says he need oral injections of a type of Baytril for oral? Is this correct or should he be needle injected?

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Originally Posted by schiffy

Vet taken care of, he is ordering Batyril and should come the beginning of the week. Hopefully its not viral cause then it would just be a waste of time sad to say..

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If not bacterial, it could also be viral or fungial and can also be a symptom of a greater problem.
If antibiotics do not work, then your vet should do blood work and a culture to find out the cause.

Myself, I would get the culture first, the medications used to treat an ri are not benign. Batryl is hard on the kidneys, but when weighed against a bacterial RI, its worth it.