Quote Originally Posted by Skiploder View Post
From what you are posting, your vet sounds like a real ass. Your account indicates he feels it was a bacterial infection, and cultured and attempted to treat it as such. When that didn't work, he threw a couple of courses of antibiotic treatment at it. Now he's recommending treating it with betadine rinses?

In all of these visits, he has not offered some theories on what he thinks it might be? A virus? A bacteria? Anything? Really?

If that's the case, go see another vet. Get the file from the original vet which should included all of the tests that were run and all of the medications that were prescribed. That way, you and your snake will not have to endure the same failed course of treatment again. It's important that you and the vet both take some time - you to clearly and concisely described what is currently happening, what treatments were tried, that other animals in your care have been infected and died, etc. - and him to listen to what you have to say.

If it's a bacterial infection, it can be cultured and an antibiotic prescribed. If it's a virus, well, then that's a different story. Flushing the mouth out with betadine is useful for something like stomatitis, not a systemic bacterial or viral infection.

Did you have necropsies done on the carpet pythons? How long did they take to die? Is this the only symptom? Have any of the afflicted animals shown any other symptoms before they expired?

All you are going to do is get people here tossing out some of the more common reptile diseases - which won't help you one bit.
let me clarify this:
we have taken the sanke to 2 vets, the first vet is really an ass, he gave us antibiotics with no use at all, file closed, so we went to another vet who is the only vet who can help us in town due to the medic technology and human resource, there are only 2 vets who knows how to treat reptiles, this time, he did a check up with the secretions, no reaction to VIRUS(my bad, i didn't clarify this), his theory is, if it is a bacterial infection, it should be cured before with the antibiotics given by the last vet, he thinks it is a virus, so he did the check up, the last result came up with a reaction on the fouth day finally, the that virus can be cured with only one kind of medicine, so we tried it but unfortuntly, the medicine give reacts with water and given a burn like heating(that's the reaction with saliva) in the esophagus, after a few days the burnt inside is treated, the latest news for today, secretions found still but way better