Wihtout a CULTURE your ball pythons RI will get worse and it will die.
I hear about it all the time, some stuupid vet looking at a snake, determining it is an RI and immediately prescribing Baytril. If that ball python has a bacteria that is resistant to Baytril (as most are these days, because too many stupid vets blanket treat all snakes with it) that ball python will die because it went untreated.