I woke up this morning when my Beardie, Marvin, kind of flailed and banged his nose against the glass of his viv. I noticed he was very dark and his mouth was WIDE open. I took him out and his stomach was kind of bloated. He then did a sort of wheeze and threw up 3 locusts and 3 wax worms, all that he had eaten basically. He then continued to wheeze. His eyes were half open and dilated. He's in the vets now waiting till the reptile vet comes in. He stomach had gone down and his eyes were more normal, but he was still very dark. He also did a wheeze like he had earlier just before we left, and his eyes went half closed. It did sort of look like he couldn't breathe, like he was choking or something.
I'm just waiting to hear from the vet. I'm so worried about him. Does anyone know what it could be? I have a cold, could he have somehow caught it? It sounds stupid, but I looked up beardie symptoms and it was the same as respiratory infection but I didn't notice any mucus.
I'm just waiting to hear from the vet. I'm so worried about him. Does anyone know what it could be? I have a cold, could he have somehow caught it? It sounds stupid, but I looked up beardie symptoms and it was the same as respiratory infection but I didn't notice any mucus.
First of all, they can't catch our colds/flus. What happened is that he vomited, and then just like people sometimes, he may have aspirated [ breathed in ] some of it. Hopefully he'll be fine, but you want to figure out why he vomited. Was he eating larger than usual, or new prey items , or was this his normal type of meal ? Sometimes they can't digest if the insects are too large and/or there was not enough heat or if he was kept out of his tank too long after being fed. But he can recover easily from vomiting , hopefully he did not aspirate food into his lungs, which will be more serious and can cause a respiratory infection. If he did, hopefully the vet will get him back to good shape.
