megabear
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I actually joined this forum recently. I was searching in a panic...my big male beardie had eaten a fire fly and he was almost dead when I found him. I didn't see him actually eat it...but it had to be a firefly. Quagmire was housed outside and there were a lot of fireflies aroudn. I didn't even think of the danger; then I went out to check him and he was 80% paralyzed. I could turn him on his back and he didn't move. I immediately ran in and searched the net. I found this forum and basically the news was bad. Most said their animals were dead within a half hour to an hour. There was really no positive advice that I could find anywhere. I thought time was the essence...so I did what I would do for a human. I made a juice extract of fresh parsley, cilantro and diluted (as per bottle directions) activated charcoal. The product I used is charcoAid-g and it is specifically for poisoning cases. I guess on the amount for his body weight. Note that both cilantro and parsley are superb for chelating poisons/metals etc out of the body. Within 1/2 hour Quagmire was marked better. Two hours later, I dosed him one more time and he had a miraculous recovery. I never thought I could save him given his condition when I found him...but this really worked. That was probably two weeks ago. You'd never know it looking at him; he's a strapping as ever. I always have parsley, cilantro and the charcoal on had, so if you don't have any you might be out of luck in a fire-fly emergency. I would at least suggest everyone have charcoal on hand. NOT barbecue stuff though...get CharcoAid-G at the drug store of online. Note, I have a good juicer and that's how I juiced the leaves. I would never have tried to put anything but liquid down his throat...so if you don't have a juicer use a blender with a little bottled water and strain the results into a juice.