Upper Respiratory Infection! Help Please!

[H_Kris_H]

My albino juvenile ball python has an upper respiratory infection that she has been fighting for the last few months. She has been to the vet twice and finally started eating for me again the last time she went. She is currently in blue and seems more active. She isn't bubbling as much as she was but when I opened her mouth today she had a lot of mucus in the back of her mouth. I gave her a warm soak to loosen any remaining mucus and I heard her weeze. I have her on high heat but I don't know what to do. I already lost her brother to this infection and I don't want to loose her too.


What should the temperature be at?
What should the humidity be at?
Should I give her warm soaks regularly?
The vet hasn't seemed to help much. Should I take her back?

PLEASE HELP!

[mpkeelee]

Try and keep ur temp around 94 and bump of the ambient temp to around 85.
Raise ur humidity up to about 80. It will help break up anything left in her.
You don't really need to soak her. If u have meds to nebulize with u can do that in a closed tub.
Try to find a more experienced reptile vet. If its ur last hope go back. Make sure they did a culture and are using the correct meds. Don't stop giving meds until it is 100% gone.

[Skittles1101]

Try and keep ur temp around 94 and bump of the ambient temp to around 85.
Raise ur humidity up to about 80. It will help break up anything left in her.
You don't really need to soak her. If u have meds to nebulize with u can do that in a closed tub.
Try to find a more experienced reptile vet. If its ur last hope go back. Make sure they did a culture and are using the correct meds. Don't stop giving meds until it is 100% gone.

+1, I've never had to deal with this before and I'm sorry you're going through it. I've also heard a fogger and some diluted F10 works wonders, along with antibiotics or whatever meds your vet prescribed. If you get the fogger, you just get a plain old tupperware, cut a hole in it so the fogger tube goes inside the tub, put the snake in and let it work for 20 minutes I believe. Here is a pretty good video BHB did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJCnPfuqaBM

Edit: URI section is about 3:50 in...

[adamjeffery]

did your vet do a culture and sensitivity test? it will narrow down the correct meds to treat your snake. the f10 (in the video posted above) is suppose to work quite well. but nothing beats proper meds and treatment from a qualified vet.
adam
what meds did they prescribe? baytril and amakacin are the 2 most common meds

[Stewart_Reptiles]

My albino juvenile ball python has an upper respiratory infection that she has been fighting for the last few months. She has been to the vet twice and finally started eating for me again the last time she went. She is currently in blue and seems more active. She isn't bubbling as much as she was but when I opened her mouth today she had a lot of mucus in the back of her mouth. I gave her a warm soak to loosen any remaining mucus and I heard her weeze. I have her on high heat but I don't know what to do. I already lost her brother to this infection and I don't want to loose her too.


What should the temperature be at?
What should the humidity be at?
Should I give her warm soaks regularly?
The vet hasn't seemed to help much. Should I take her back?

PLEASE HELP!

Number one you need to limit any additional stress which mean no handling and no bathing at this point

Number two you need to find a new vet, preferably a reputable herp vet that is experienced, not sure what the diagnoses was, what was prescribed and for how long but obviously it's not working according to your own words.

This time have a culture done, it is possible that the bacteria is resistant to certain anti-biotic.

Here is how to find an herp vet in your area http://www.arav.org/ECOMARAV/timssne...t_mdsearch.cfm

[H_Kris_H]

Thank you so much for all of your help everyone.

I did take her to a rather experience reptile vet and he did culture her. It turned out to be three different strains of bacteria.. I'm going to put her on higher heat and up the humidity but I think I'm going to take her back to the vet.. I may have just brought her home a little too soon. I'd probably be too tempted to check on her every day. Thank you very much.