It's hard for me to even imagine what you're going through right now. But tell me, did the vet determine the exact cause of the illness?
I don't have much experience, but have you considered that the cause could be in the diet?
Last year was very difficult in our city. I know the owner of the reptile shop well, he is also a vet. He said that owners who lost their dragons came to him en masse. He performed an autopsy and the cause of death was a diseased liver. In the end, it turned out that everyone was feeding greens with a high nitrate content. I already wrote that I don't have much experience, but check your dragons' diet again.
Well, their salads are a mix of collard, mustard, turnip greens, kale and sometimes baby arugula. And i wouldn't be surprised if she did have some fatty liver, she was fat, she always acted like she was starving and was a great eater, but with the situation with Toothless, we changed to their recommended diet. (A handful of mealworms once a week)
Miko had the "pneumonia" but her lungs didn't look awful, just a change in opacity so I think it was more of a respiratory infection. And then Dreki started coughing and the vet was like, we can do an xray or just start the ceftaz injection to be safe and I think her issue was a real reaction to the antibiotic. I have a video of her 30 minutes before the injection and the next morning and its totally different. She was alert, no
black beard, no sunken eyes, not lethargic. And then as the last few days went on, the saliva in her mouth got *really*, *really* sticky and stringy and they think she aspirated because the water just made a glue like substance with her saliva.
I think the main issue was a reaction to the antibiotic. Now we're paranoid with Nova, because she was coughing (but hers seems more like something stuck in her mouth, even though they didn't see anything) and she had her first shot yesterday and seems a little meh today. Twice in the last two months, we lost two lizards within a week from getting sick. I can't handle it.
