BP Respiratory Infection *Help*

[Stewart_Reptiles]

You just took this beyond extreme lung mites and lung worms? It’s an upper respitory infection. Do you think that people that own 100+ snakes take them to the vets everytime they get an RI? You either nebulize them or remove the excess mucus and saliva from the nose and mouth and hope that it clears by itself.

obviously this method didn’t work for me this time so I have now moved on to antibiotic injections! Which I am doing myself. Just because we don’t have good vets here does not mean that you cannot educate yourself on the animals that you keep!

Most people who have 100 of snakes do not have RI, I have between 50 and 75 breeders at all time and between 100 and 200 hatchling and not once had a snake with RI in 10 years.

Why first proper quarantine procedure which is where you failed in the first place.

Second low stress, & roper husbandry and if that is done the chances of RI is greatly reduced.

What if 1 or 2 or more animals had a RI

1# They would be separated and moved to another room

2# I would go to a vet, regardless of the type of vet and ask for the following for each animals

Culture and based on that culture I would get the proper anti-biotic treatment for no less than a month.

And unless all vet clinics have closed in Saudi Arabia there are vet clinic, again whether they treat reptiles or not on a regular basis does not matter so long YOU know what to ask for as they will have the basic skills for a culture and prescription.

RI are serious, they are the equivalent of Pneumonia in human the earlier they are treated the better the chances and letting the issue linger for months does not help and shows a lack of knowledge and understanding of what a RI is as well as the snake anatomy. They are not the equivalent of a cold that clears up on it's own, you don't get those treated your snake will die either fast or a slow death and it will be on YOU.

I hear the excuse of there is no good vet or they are too far all the time and those are poor excuses.

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