AHBD":3nnw7xgq said:Oh my, please put up pics ASAP. Will you be changing the dressing any time ? It's always pretty much a must to take pics as something like this develops. I wonder if you can find pics of what his pores looked like before the vet intervention. It can usually be resolved with good soaks. Hopefully it's not Y.F.
Your boy is a good looking dude, on the chunky side for sure but handsome nonetheless.
EllenD":gjzgdwo9 said:Oh I'm so sorry he's going through this, what a horrible thing...hopefully your vet is experienced with this sort of thing, it's so difficult to find a good, experienced Reptile vet...
Looking at the photo I don't personally see anything that looks like Yellow Fungus, and honestly I don't know how you could tell considering everything that has been going on in that area, the bacterial infection, the necrosis, the procedures/surgeries, the topical meds, etc. It's very likely that it's just damaged scales, stained scales, or even a bit of bacterial infection spreading throughout the area, but it doesn't look like Yellow Fungus to me, though the light in the photo isn't making it easy to really get a good look at it...
Just as an FYI, your vet only needs to do a very non-invasive, simple Skin-Scraping test of the area and send it off to the lab to test for Yellow Fungus, and the results are usually back in a couple of days. A Skin-Scraping test literally takes 5-10 minutes at the very most, doesn't hurt, and is not at all in any way a "Biopsy". So I'm not sure why your vet has scheduled an actual "Biopsy" for next week, that makes it sound like they are actually going to be removing a chunk of tissue to solely test for Yellow Fungus??? If so, then you definitely need to stop that train from running...the vet could have done the Skin-Scraping test in the few minutes during the last visit, you'd already have the results by now...So unless she is planning on doing a much more invasive "Biopsy" of the area in order to test for something else or for some reason other than testing for Yellow Fungus, then something isn't quite right, and I suggest either calling the vet and asking them why they aren't just doing a simple Skin-Scraping test for the Yellow Fungus diagnosis, and if they don't understand what you're talking about or they insist that a Biopsy must be done, then you need to find another vet that will do the Skin-Scraping test on the spot, as is usually done. I've never, ever heard of doing an actual "Biopsy" to simply test for Yellow Fungus, and I've done a ton of Yellow Fungus and other Skin-Scraping tests at the Reptile and Bird Rescue I work at...
EllenD":v0p3365q said:I also have to say, looking at his other femoral pores, they're not at all that badly clogged, I mean yes, they're clogged, but they aren't clogged so badly that I would have done anything invasive to clean them out...Why? Because there is too great a risk of a bad infection, as you well know. Usually when femoral pores are only clogged like your Dragon's are, simply soaking them in warm water once a day for a couple of weeks, and then applying Coconut Oil or something similar directly on them each day after you soak them will loosen the wax build-up and remove it within a month or so.
AHBD":3ja7sln4 said:Yikes, I agree with Ellen this could have been resolved without all that invasive treatment that has really caused an infection now. No biopsy needed to test for Y.F, that would just be more pain and further irritation to that area. They should have done a simple skin scraping while you were there and they were taking off the " necrotic " tissue ! Vets need to realize that constantly bringing an animal in causes further stress and can make things worse.
BTW, I also don't think that look like Y.F. [ thankfully ] as far as I can see but this has been cause by the messing around + inflaming the irritated tissue.
I am thinking that this should be treated with raw unpasteurized honey + gauze that is changed every 2-3 days. Leaving an open wound covered like that for a week or so may be making it worse. Poor boy, how extremely uncomfortable + painful this must be. He can get through this but I think the vet actually caused the damage.
AHBD":3n28wuau said:Yes, raw honey can do wonders, vets are using it on horrific wounds that are even gangrenous. I wish I could find the vet thread that I used to post a couple years ago that had some of the most graphic images of huge upen wounds [ one dog's entire back, complete with pus + green slime ] that healed with raw honey. Here's one from a clinic in Germany of a human infant with a huge , unhealing sore that healed after using of honey when nothing else worked. Warning, pic is graphic
http://apitherapy.blogspot.com/2007/06/honey-used-to-treat-wound-infections-in.html
I would slather honey on it + redress it every 2-3 days.
AHBD":1fh4kxrk said:No betadine soaks, I'm sure the vet already put some antiseptic on but it's not needed now. I think the raw honey WITH a bandage at first [ before leaving it open ] so he doesn't rub it on anything in his tank while it's raw. Also that will keep the honey in contact with the wound, and the honey has powerful antimicrobial properties.
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