Quote Originally Posted by Big Gunns View Post
A few people including WWP have given BG some grief about telling people to use a certain med without a fecal. Big Gunns has this to say about that. Every time you go to the doctor, does the doc take blood or check your urine. We know the answer to that don't we. If you go to the doc and tell him you have a stomach ache, he is gonna ask you a bunch of questions and maybe prescribe you something.
Actually, YES. Every time I have gone to a doctor, they do in fact want a blood or urine sample, often both. If I go to a doctor and tell him I have a stomach ache, he checks my white cell count, he doesn't just prescribe me something without looking for evidence of what's causing the problem. I do not think I would go to a doctor who treated an internal problem in that fashion!

"Anorexia" in snakes, 99% of the time, has a concrete cause. The first thing that should be done is to look for the cause. Once environment and prey preferences are addressed, it's time to look for signs of an illness. Parasitization and infection are two common causes. It's important to determine what's wrong so you can treat it properly and completely. I stand by that opinion.

These drugs are not harmless. They are toxic chemicals. Some individual animals have adverse reactions to them. It's rare, but it happens. In an animal already weakened by some underlying issue that has caused it to stop feeding for a year, it could do more harm than good if it is not the proper treatment.