bayoupig5
Sub-Adult Member
As some of you may know...Stinky my 6 year old male was diagnosed with pneumonia on November 28, 2018. He was given a poor prognosis at that time, and x-rays had confirmed pneumonia. Over the last month, there had been some pretty scary days, but he seemed to be improving over time. Recently, he seemed to breathing quite normally, with some popping usually after a warm bath. I have been swabbing his mouth to clear any seen mucus. He has been on Ceftazadime the whole time.
I had him in for a check up, and on examination Stinky looked good. His color was great, he gained weight. His breathing was not bad initially. That was until she tried to look down his throat. She wanted to see if maybe anything was caught there as she thought she spotted something. But the little guy was not having it, after fighting with a tongue depressor, which caused a little mouth bleeding on swabbing, and ten minutes of trying to look, and several almost bite the vet incidents. She gave up. However, after this, he was very black. started to gag cough, and huff more constantly, with more crackles than I had heard since the very beginning. And his breathing rate increased as well as being heavier. (As what usually happens when a dragon is stressed or angry).
I took him home, put him in his viv, and he remained black all evening. His breathing was quite heavy still. I though that being back at home in his viv would calm him down. I checked on him this morning and again he was very black. I bathed him, he was still very black. He seemed to have calmed his breathing somewhat, I did not hear coughs or gags. But he is popping/crackling again and his breathing is heavy at times. I placed him back in his very warm viv, and he is again trying to get fully upright into a vertical position, just like he was a month ago. Which tells me his breathing is for some reason is worse.
So I placed towels on his basking area, so he can get as vertical as possible. I covered his tank with a towel to give him some privacy, hoping to reduce his stress.
Any thoughts? I am mostly worried about him being shades of black, as even when he was super ill in the beginning, this never happened. I have to keep him on Ceft, obviously, and he get an injection tomorrow.
However, I have finally got my F10, so can I nebulize while he is on the Ceft? Any help, advice, thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
I had him in for a check up, and on examination Stinky looked good. His color was great, he gained weight. His breathing was not bad initially. That was until she tried to look down his throat. She wanted to see if maybe anything was caught there as she thought she spotted something. But the little guy was not having it, after fighting with a tongue depressor, which caused a little mouth bleeding on swabbing, and ten minutes of trying to look, and several almost bite the vet incidents. She gave up. However, after this, he was very black. started to gag cough, and huff more constantly, with more crackles than I had heard since the very beginning. And his breathing rate increased as well as being heavier. (As what usually happens when a dragon is stressed or angry).
I took him home, put him in his viv, and he remained black all evening. His breathing was quite heavy still. I though that being back at home in his viv would calm him down. I checked on him this morning and again he was very black. I bathed him, he was still very black. He seemed to have calmed his breathing somewhat, I did not hear coughs or gags. But he is popping/crackling again and his breathing is heavy at times. I placed him back in his very warm viv, and he is again trying to get fully upright into a vertical position, just like he was a month ago. Which tells me his breathing is for some reason is worse.
So I placed towels on his basking area, so he can get as vertical as possible. I covered his tank with a towel to give him some privacy, hoping to reduce his stress.
Any thoughts? I am mostly worried about him being shades of black, as even when he was super ill in the beginning, this never happened. I have to keep him on Ceft, obviously, and he get an injection tomorrow.
However, I have finally got my F10, so can I nebulize while he is on the Ceft? Any help, advice, thoughts would be greatly appreciated.