Hello,
How is your dragon doing? That's great her eyes are better today! The terramycin is highly
effective so I'm happy to hear that worked well for her.
That is correct to keep the Fortaz in the freezer, but you can set one of the premeasured
syringes out for a bit, daily, to get it to room temperature before giving that to her. Did he
show you how to give the shot to her & the placement? Did you mean .3ml on the amount?
The subcutaneous liquid should last awhile, probably about a week.
Is she cooperating with eating the carnivore care? What was the vet going to do for treatment
in a week or so, just more subcutaneous fluids, etc?
The bloodwork is overall not too bad, just a few values are off. The WBC/monocytes are high
due to her fighting some type of infection. They increase when infection is present so hopefully
those levels will drop. The regular monocyte count looks good but the azurophils monocyte count
is elevated during bacterial infections. Hopefully the levels will normalize with the medication
round.
The urea nitrogen is essentially in the same classification of renal or kidney function readings. It
is determining the health of the kidneys & it isn't too much off but a little bit & the uric acid levels
are just slightly elevated. She could possibly be a little dehydrated which can definitely cause
those readings to be off to some extent.
The heterophils are another value in the white blood count readings. These levels essentially
are elevated during sepsis or necrosis. So, if her kidneys are causing toxins to build up in her
system that can elevate readings.
The globulin readings are simply antibodies in protein that are responsible for fighting disease.
Those levels should decrease once the body's immune system is in check & not having to fight
an infection of some type.
The calcium levels are good & the ratios to the phosphorus is relatively normal. The phosphorus
could come up a little but I wouldn't really worry too much about the ratios as they should level
out once the infection is cleared up.
I hope she feels better soon!
Tracie