Snake Having Allergies or Infection?

[psychoprimate84]

I am trying to help out a friend at Snake Charmers (yes I recommended her to our happy little website). She does post on fauna though and this is how I found out her problem. Even the vet is stumped. I can only help so much. I even asked my vet tech friend Josh (CULEBRA85) and we thought it could be allergies. Her whole story is on:
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=198231

If I am needed to copy and past instead, let me know. Its just better to get the whole update of her situation on there because that is where she posted it.

 

[psychoprimate84]

This is really important. Please someone help before something happens to her snakes.

 

[VickyChaiTea]

Isn't it possible that it was a respiratory infection that did not respond to that particular anti-biotic?

 

[Christen]

Baytril is a great full spectrum antibiotic. I am a little unclear on how long she has continued with it however sometimes in does need to go on for a few weeks depending on the situation and you don't want to start and stop the Baytril as any antibiotic. Because you can build up a resistance and since baytril is one of the few that reptiles can take you don't want to run the risk.

I find it really hard to believe that it is the "something else" that she is worried about just because of the situation with all three of the snakes. I would go ahead and try anti-fungals if the antibiotics are not seeming to help. It very well could be a fungal infection.

 

[psychoprimate84]

She tried the anti fungal, via a nebulizer, but it only made the snakes worse. So far, the bacterial cultures they have done have come back negative. Fungal still has not come back from the lab yet.