Small amount of blood after defecating

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Originally Posted by aurum

Hooray! After this week's meal (no panacur) she gave me a very normal stool, no blood even, after a normal amount of time digesting. I still have a lot to figure out with her treatment and everything, but I am taking this as a good thing.

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:gj: Great news! "Normal" is exactly what we want to see. :)

The second fecal we did came back negative for pinworms, which is good, but I also don't know if I can trust it completely, since the stool sample I submitted was the weird, grayish, goopy one and not a normal stool. Based on the results though, my vet recommended that I don't give her the second dose of Panacur and just monitor and update them with any changes. Restarting treatment is an option in the future if necessary. I think this sounds like a good plan for now, and just for my peace of mind I'll also request another fecal in a few weeks.

I think the "grayish goopy stool" is probably just an upset tummy from the medication, but I agree wholeheartedly with your plan. When I've de-wormed snakes, I dosed on the light side too, knowing how sensitive snakes can be to various medications. You can always dose again IF you need to. It comes down to "First, do no harm." :gj:

How is she doing now? any change?

Her symptoms are largely the same: normal stool with a tiny amount of or no blood, and normal healthy behavior. I've been waiting for her to pass waste a few more times so I have some more data for the vet and then get their thoughts on what to do moving forward. I'd ask for the fecal then too.

Rats, I was hoping & thought there'd be no more bleeding. But it's good she's eating & acting normal, maybe just needs some healing? It's hard to "rest" the GI tract. Fingers crossed for her.

Getting another fecal sent out tomorrow, and unfortunately there was some dried blood with this one too. Another thing I'm concerned about is her whistle-y breathing. I've been keeping an eye on it ever since I first noticed and it is definitely still there, maybe even more frequent. The thing is I've also been checking her mouth periodically and I can't see any excess saliva as far as I can tell? I think I'll just book an exam and get a culture done for an RI anyway though, I don't know what else could be causing this and kingsnakes aren't known for being naturally "noisy".

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Originally Posted by aurum

Getting another fecal sent out tomorrow, and unfortunately there was some dried blood with this one too. Another thing I'm concerned about is her whistle-y breathing. I've been keeping an eye on it ever since I first noticed and it is definitely still there, maybe even more frequent. The thing is I've also been checking her mouth periodically and I can't see any excess saliva as far as I can tell? I think I'll just book an exam and get a culture done for an RI anyway though, I don't know what else could be causing this and kingsnakes aren't known for being naturally "noisy".

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Sorry to hear that you're still seeing a bit of blood. Wonder what the vet will say about that? :confusd:

I hate to say this but snakes can get worms in their lungs too. Do ask your vet. Search for lung worms in snakes- lots of links such as-

http://www.animalplanet.com/pets/oth...s/pentastomes/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996842/

https://wildlife.org/watch-invasive-...lorida-snakes/

Thanks for the links, I sent an email out to my vet about the lung worms, but unfortunately he's not going to be in the office until June 10th. I really hope she doesn't have them though, it looks like there's basically no treatment :(

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Originally Posted by aurum

Thanks for the links, I sent an email out to my vet about the lung worms, but unfortunately he's not going to be in the office until June 10th. I really hope she doesn't have them though, it looks like there's basically no treatment :(

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I hope that's not her problem also, & I hesitated to mention it, but figured your own research could easily turn that up anyway. Sorry your vet is absent for a while, I know how badly you want some answers & help for your sweet snake.