Tfulton30":1csl1cay said:
Thanks for the advise. That’s where I did the injection yesterday and it didn’t seem to bother her too much. I’m honestly not sure if I can handle doing this for 2 weeks which is how long the vet told us to give the Baytril. I think I’d much rather do it orally. I’m just worried cuz the last oral meds she was on did not work.
Believe me giving antibiotics to a lizard by IM injection is MUCH QUICKER and EASIER and MUCH LESS STRESSFUL than giving nasty tasting antibiotics orally. Been there done that and the skink I mentioned HATED the oral antibiotics with a vengeance and did his best to make it hard two person job (one person restrained the skink and guided the plastic cathetar tube into the skinks mouth (the back corner) , and the other person operated the 1 ml syringe attached to the catheter tube (slowly pushed the plunger to deliver the dose. I was giving Lucky combined broad spectrum antibiotics mixed with painrelief IM injections for 4 weeks , and oral antiobiotics by mouth for 4 months.
Lucky was a crazy lizard for about 1 minute after each oral dose , huge yuck response.
The kit I used is shown here : 22G (blue catheter tube)
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Even little Lucky did his best to destroy the hated catheter tube (they are made from Teflon), a bearded dragon has much more weaponry in it's upper and lower jaws so is likely to bite bits off the end of the tube. You may need to resort to using a small gauge 18G feeding needle (these are made of high grade surgical stainless steel so are literally indestructible and designed not to damage the gums and teeth of lizard).
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