I know we all hate this, but.. HELP

[amandajf]

First of all you need to see a vet and get a Culture and Sensitivity test done on a trachea swab.

I know this, but if you see above, I can't find a good herp vet open on a holiday weekend and I have a snake that could not inhale whatsoever without standing her head up 6 inches and mouth open whilst phlegm rattled like mad as she breathed in. She went from a slight cough on Wednesday to this horrid rattle by Friday night. I could not, and chose not to, wait until Tuesday to find someone open and then the subsequent wait for the culture. This is assuming I could afford this right now, which I cannot, and I certainly can't take off of work for it either.

If indeed you need Baytril, you need .4cc per 1000 grams.

That is also the dose the gentleman in the videos on this thread suggested which is about 9 mg per kg snake (because he used a 22.7mg/ml vial). My snake is only 300g, so she only got .15 cc which resulted in a 3.405 mg dose. Most resources suggested a dose of 5mg-10mg per kg, and given that this animal couldn't breath but slowly and with much effort, I went with the higher dose. Until I can get in touch with a vet, I'm relying on this thread, a person on another forum and the mom and pop rescue I found with experience in medicating sick, rescued herps. I'd much rather do 10mg/kg for 7 days than 5mg/kg for 14 days as I don't want to keep stabbing this animal.

Also, you can't blanket .4cc per kg. Baytril iv solution comes in more than one strength. You have to know the actual mg per kg to calculate the dose. I know the vial I used was 22.7mg/ml and had to calculate accordingly.

http://www.vin.com/VINDBPub/SearchPB...00/PR00341.htm

http://www.anapsid.org/resources/rxdose.html