So several weeks ago I posted about my snake having a potential respiratory infection. Well after dealing with a couple of awful vets I found one who would do a swab test on him. The results came back to today and he does indeed have a bacterial infection. The bacteria is called Klebsiella. There are two antibiotics that showed up as sensitive to it. I asked the vet what the next step is and he suggested waiting on medication because for the past four weeks my snake's symptoms haven't worsened (at times they actually seem a bit better). All he's doing is making puffing noises, no other symptoms have popped up since he started making noises. The vet doesn't want to medicate right away unless the symptoms worsen because he says the antibiotics could become resistant if other future more fast acting and serious illnesses popped up. He wants to see if it'll go away on it's own and thinks it hasn't taken a stronghold on my snake because he hasn't worsened at all in the past four weeks. He wants me to keep cleaning the cage very often and keep fresh air circulating which I've been doing. I'm clueless on if this is accurate information or not, he's never been sick before this. What do you guys think?
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