Reaching out to folks who have experience with bearded dragons or other reptiles who may have experienced similar issue.
My juvenile bearded dragon started developing yellow straw colored fluid in his peritonium. Exotic vet aspirated - cytology didn’t reveal infectious or viral or fungal. Labs all normal- kidney liver blood count. The only differential they gave me was heart failure. Put him on diuretics and enalapril and pimodendan. It’s been 6 months. He is not getting better. Fluid accumulated slowly that he has to get needle aspirations every month or sooner. Starting to wonder it’s a miserable life for my beardie. No mention expensive. He is eating and pooping well.
Have thoughts of putting him down. But this is my last effort to see if maybe we missed something. Vet doesn’t know what else to do. Maxed out on meds.
And advise would be helpful.
My juvenile bearded dragon started developing yellow straw colored fluid in his peritonium. Exotic vet aspirated - cytology didn’t reveal infectious or viral or fungal. Labs all normal- kidney liver blood count. The only differential they gave me was heart failure. Put him on diuretics and enalapril and pimodendan. It’s been 6 months. He is not getting better. Fluid accumulated slowly that he has to get needle aspirations every month or sooner. Starting to wonder it’s a miserable life for my beardie. No mention expensive. He is eating and pooping well.
Have thoughts of putting him down. But this is my last effort to see if maybe we missed something. Vet doesn’t know what else to do. Maxed out on meds.
And advise would be helpful.