Baby badly injured need HELP immediately!

hiimdan":3iwv0qx7 said:

Need help as I live in a small country town in Australia and there is no reptile vet nearby.

I rescued a baby beardie from the garden because it could not move its back legs. Did some research and thought he might be impacted so I gave it a warm bath and offered him some greens with a drop of olive oil but it was uninterested. It had been very lethargic and still can't move his back legs so I let it rest in a click clack with a heat mat underneath it all night.

This morning it was still very sleepy and couldn't move. I turned it over and it was bleeding very slightly near its cloaca and has something protruding from it. I have given him 2 iodine baths in luke warm water and applied manuka honey to the area. I also fed it a slurry of water + mushed crickets + greens through a 2ml syringe, I think a little went in.

It is still alive but seems very weak and sleepy. I am letting him rest on a heat mat with paper towel ontop. Here is a photo of his underside.
<<< better than nothing.
Could it be poo or perhaps a prolapsed organ?. https://imgur.com/a/CEe6O
Any help appreciated.

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Step ONE:
If you have your bearded dragon in sand substrate...this prolapse is going to have sand stuck all over it, and you do not want that! So, take your bearded dragon and put him/her in a warm bath and remove all the sand from the surface. If you don't have your bearded dragon in sand you may want to still put them in a nice warm bath and make sure the area is clean, because it'll be prone to infection which can be fatal.

Step TWO:
Take about 1/5 a cup, if not less, of hot water and dissolve table sugar (doesn't matter how much) in it.
Next, make this sugar water bath a little deeper with colder water and then place your dragon in the bath.
The point of this sugar bath is not only to moisten the surface of the prolapse, but it also acts to reduce swelling.
When organs come out of the body like this, they tend to swell due to fluids and gases; the sugar water you have just made will act as a hypertonic solution that draws the fluids from the tissue, thus causing the swelling to reduce in size.
If it reduces sufficiently enough, you may be able to gently push the prolapse back in (although I don't recommend doing this yourself) with a cutip covered in Vaseline.
Anyway, keep him/her in the sugar bath for approximately 15-20 minutes; during this time you may want to thoroughly clean their caging using vinegar and water - never use 409 or Windex.
Also, if you are using sand as your substrate, you need to remove all of it and replace it with paper towels or newspaper; same goes for dirt substrates.

Step THREE:
After the sugar bath, put your bearded dragon in their newly cleaned cage and make a sugar/water paste to apply to the area.
This paste is going continue to moisten the area while also reducing the swelling.
Alternatively, if you have Vaseline lying around, you can use that to keep the area moistened as well.
Keeping the prolapse moist is VERY important because if it dries out the tissue can become necrotic = not good!
Necrosis is the death of cells and requires immediate attention from a vet in the case of a bearded dragon prolapse.
Also, you want to keep the area, and everything around it VERY clean because the tissue can easily become infected.

Step FOUR:
Repeat these steps daily (sugar water bath twice a day) until you can get your dragon to the vet!

The procedures the vet will perform

The vet will mostly likely put your dragon in a sugar/water bath for ~15 minutes to reduce some of the swelling - depending on how far the organ is protruding from the anus.
Next, the vet is going to gently push it back in and apply stitches to the area.
You are going to have to leave the suture there for about 5 days before having it removed by the vet.
During this checkup the vet will also feel the area to make sure the swelling has sufficiently reduced before removing the suture.

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