Need tips for dealing with ri(respiratory infection)!!!

[Homegrownscales]

There are several ways of solving it without going to a vet - that's the problem with this darn forum, all these hens are so dang judgmental. Some approaches you may recommend to your, "friend":

(1) Take off all of your clothes,with the exception of a zebra print thong, oil your body up with Crisco and dance around the snake while humming the chorus to "It's Raining Men".

(2) Drink a six pack of diet coke in less than 45 minutes. Urinate into a copper bucket. Run this through a humidifier in the room that the snake resides in. The dissolved metals in your urine mixed with the chemicals in the diet coke will react with the copper creating the seebeck effect. When nebulized, it will act as a potent lung tonic.

(3) It is possible that the snake does not have an RI, but is possessed by a malevolent spirit. In that case, you need to urge your friend to get that snake to a qualified herp exorcist immediately. If not, that poor animal's soul will be damned to eternal torment. Is you friend too cheap to save this animal from HELL?

You could have saved yourself a lot of drama and just found all these cures on Anapsid - the most informative reptile site on the intrawebs.

Toodles,

Skip

Skip I think I just peed my pants laughing. You always crack me up.

Op- vet is the only answer. At the stage that that snake is in it should have received treatment months ago. I understand your friend just got the snake but it needs a vet like yesterday. Hopefully he learned that the dirt cheap good deals are there bc the smart people won't go near them. You do get what you pay for. I hope he realizes that there are no other options at this point.


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[rabernet]

Thanks for the help, my friend is scheduling a trip to the vet in a week, but what other types of methods are used to help treat RI?

I really don't understand why your friend is scheduling a trip to the vet in a week. Why not immediately? All vets will see animals immediately in case of emergency - and this qualifies.

I never understood why some owners of reptiles will allow their pet to suffer another week, and look for home remedies that don't work, but wouldn't hesitate to rush their warm and fuzzy pets to the vet immediately.

Would you look for a home remedy for the dog or cat if they were in breathing distress and just wait to take them in, in a week? Hell, for that matter, if YOU were in breathing distress, would you just suffer for a week and hope that over the counter meds help while your lungs are filled with fluid? At least you can cough to somewhat help, snakes cannot.

[mr.spooky]

heres what R.I looks like...


in the second pic, the upper part of the lung (the red part) is the affected part of the lungs, and the lower part of the lungs (the whiteish part) is what the "normal" lung should look like. does your friend want this???
spooky

[AJs Snake House]

Make sure your friend researches herp vets in his/her area and doesnt just take the word of others. I took my rescued BPs to a "highly recommended" herp vet in my area, I was referred by several different people that own reptiles...this "herp vet" didnt even do cultures to see what kind of bacteria it was, she just prescribed oral baytril and sent me home...its not worth the extra $$$, time and suffering (on the animals part) to make two visits to two different vets because the first vet thinks hanging pictures of reptiles up in her exam room shows that she must have a vast knowledge of herps...
I know I'm just ranting now, however I believe my experience happened so others can avoid the same thing happening to them and their snakes.

[kgronsbell]

I don't appreciate the stupid response. And my "friend" as you put it is my friend from school who lives 2 blocks away from me, so I am always helping him out with his animals considering he has like 16 total reptiles. Help or please don't comment at all.

[Slim]

I don't appreciate the stupid response. And my "friend" as you put it is my friend from school who lives 2 blocks away from me, so I am always helping him out with his animals considering he has like 16 total reptiles. Help or please don't comment at all.

Grow up. You got the best advice for your friend's situation. The only thing stupid in this thread is your inability to take it.

[kgronsbell]

And to all you who said schedule it sooner, take him to a vet immediately, and that I'm ignorant while it truly is my friend, stop. He couldn't get into the vet for a week because first off, there is one reptile specialist in my entire county and the one next door, second of all, the vet was booked for the next 3 weeks, but was able to get his bp in in a week, and thirdly, I was just seeing if there was anything that could help him out in the mean time. People on here really don't know how to read a simple question, and give a quality answer without throwing their 2 cents in there. Thanks for the replies, just wish they were constructive rather than critical.

[Slim]

People on here really don't know how to read a simple question

You have shown a gross inability to understand good advice.

Your continued insistence that people on a free and public forum respond only in the way you wish them to is both sad, and highly amusing.

[laughingtree369]

Start with making sure the enclosure is 90-95degrees. I'm not sure about Balls, but I was told by the Vet to keep the humidity low for a couple of days. My Tiger Retic just had this problem because we kept her in a bathroom until her new enclosure was built. Apparently, the linoleum and porcelain zap the heat from animals, which is particularly bad for a snake. Now we know.

Check around the nostrils and see if she has black or discolored patches around the nostrils and see if she is mouth breathing. She'll be holding her mouth open to breath because she can't breath from her nostrils, which means she can't eat.

The Vet is the best thing to do, but, some of us can't always afford it when needed. If you can't, raise her temp immediately. Go to a local pet store and buy vitamins for her water to help her fight the infection and lack of nourishment. We were told to keep the water dish small so she didn't spill it or lay in it, but had just enough to drink.

We weren't able to see the vet for 3 days, and when we got there, our python was already better.

Also, if you bought it from someone who didn't know what they were doing, check it for scale rot and mites too. I've rescued a lot who have these problems. If she has multiple problems to fight, it makes getting well harder.

Good Luck.

[laughingtree369]

I really don't understand why your friend is scheduling a trip to the vet in a week. Why not immediately? All vets will see animals immediately in case of emergency - and this qualifies.

I don't know if this is the friend's case, but some of us live out in the boonies. There are other people with animals just as sick. I had to wait 3 days for an appointment recently. I thought I was going to lose my python. Snakes are a specialty. Not all vets will see snakes, at least where I am. There is only one Vet who sees snakes here, and sometimes, it takes a while to get in. In the mean time, you do what you can do to help it.