Quote Originally Posted by ed4281 View Post

It sounds as if your vet is thinking your snake may have ibd because it's not getting better however your snake would have died long before now if that were the case.

Not necessarily.

First, if my translator is working correctly, they never did a complete bacterial sensitivity panel. Oh, and the last vet prescribed an anti-viral drug............I'd love to know which one.

Second, IBD can hang around for a long time. All this crap we hear about pythons succumbing quickly, is like most IBD information, mainly misinformation. IBD is famous (or is it infamous?) for presenting itself as a never-ending stream of untreatable sub-acute infections.

Third, if you read through the OPs posts, he/she has already lost carpet pythons and had other health concerns pop up in his/her collection. We know nothing of the OP's husbandry practices or the conditions these animals are being kept in.

We also have no idea what other symptoms these snakes are exhibiting. The only thing we know is that they have a mysterious drooling disease, which a couple of vets have thrown antibiotics at and which the last round of treatment didn't work because the mystery medicine (virus medication no less) burned the esophagus of the snake.

To the OP - please tell us what virus the vet thinks your snake has and please let us know what anti-viral medication was prescribed.