Seeking Input From People Experienced W/ Respiratory Infection

[zeion97]

I have been fogging her with F10 but honestly she's been battling this since at least September, so I think it's far beyond F10. I'm still keeping up with it, though because I don't think it can hurt. Now that I've got the problem under control, I, and everybody who has helped me, is confident that she will finally be cured.

And the problem with getting a culture, is that no vet around here will do a culture. None that I have spoke with, anyways. And I've called many. I'm not letting just anybody fill my snakes lung up with fluid. That is the problem. Nobody will help me. The Baytril works. She was almost cured. She WOULD have been cured, had she been prescribed a long enough round of it in the first place. And then the vet didn't screw around. I understand that not every vet can know anything.

But IMO, if you're a vet and you have zero idea how to treat the animal:

1) Don't pretend you know how to treat the animal.
2) Don't be a freakin' &%^%$ when the client brings forth information, research, and anecdotes from fellow snake breeders to help you treat the animal.

Seriously, he brushed me off so many times. Every question or bit of research I brought up, he shot me down. He didn't even give me any explanation. When I asked him (verbatim)

"But if you don't complete a round of antibiotics, the bacteria that are left, and were not killed by said antibiotics, are not the weak ones. They are the surviving bacteria, and they are stronger than the ones that were killed by the antibiotics. And that is why there are superbugs in humans."

He said "No. Wrong. That's not how it works."

And seriously, the Fortaz thing. It's so stupid it honestly makes me laugh and shake my head at how stupid it is.

And that's not the only thing. He has just told me so many things that were so blatantly wrong it's not even funny. I mean, shouldn't EVERYBODY with a medical license know how antibiotics work?

If you don't complete the course, your problem will come back and it will come back worse. FACT.

There is no such thing as a slow-release antibiotic, FACT.

You need a culture to know what bacteria you are dealing with. FACT.

Anyways. So done with this!! I will definitely keep y'all posted on her progress!

Do you have a university near you? Like I live near the UOI university of Illinois. They don't advertise but they have a very we
L trained exotic vet who looks at animals. You may get lucky taking this route and find one who will look at them. The nearest vet that would do a culture near me besides this one was near Chicago, which is a 2 hour drive.. I know the burden you have with "professionals" been there done that, and even met there collection agency who said quote "the vet not knowing how to help you is no concern to the money owed"