(i am fairly new to bearded dragon keeping so take this with a
t o n of salt) not literally of course. But for impactions i found that applying extra virgin olive oil to their lips (just a drop or 2) for them to lick can help them. Read this online and tried it myself, you can generally feed them small amounts of natural room temp prune juice to stimulate their bowels. After applying olive oil, feeding prune juice and giving a warm
bath to my impacted beardie, he promptly unleashed a Massive BM and stopped being impacted. If you have reason to believe your beardie ate a foreign object, especially something bigger than the gap between their eyes this could be a cause for concern, also if you could tell me what his diet consists of that would be great.
REMEMBER everything i tell you to do should be researched on the internet, i have only had them for about a year and im still learning,
i do not want to be responsible for the injury of a beardie, here is the vid
skip to 0:56 to avoid the banter.
i was lucky to have the same brand of prune juice in my store, so if you dont have that brand, just look for 100% prune juice, as for the olive oil :
Ultimate Guide to Bearded Dragon Impaction: Signs, Treatments, & More , to summarize:
"Olive Oil
To help move things along, consider putting a couple drops of olive oil on your dragon’s nose for them to lick off. It is very important that you don’t opt for vegetable oil, however, just olive oil.
" though i highly encourage you to read it yourself in case i missed something. also either method for giving olive oil works, yet i encourage how the vid does it, if it seems more imminent. Best of luck, this should not be major cuase for concern, and i hope to see him get better... :D
