Pinworms/Protazoa

[bayoupig5]

Em just had his/her 1 month fecal check-up. Turns out Em has pin worms and 2 unidentified protozoa!!! Oh boy. The vet is confident meds will work to eradicate the protozoa, and is not overtly concerned with the pin worms. However, he is not really wanting to treat Em at this time as he/she is so little. Em is only 7 inches and 15 grams. The med the vet was going to use is Metronidazole (is an antibiotic which is commonly used to treat protozoan infections and anaerobic bacterial infections) has to be given in the smallest dose ever, something like .0001ml, and overdoses can cause seizures!!! At this point, Em is eating well and so far has been gaining weight. So there are no adverse symptoms of a parasite take over. The vet suggest waiting to see if the infection progresses, and ultimately hoping Em gets a little bigger to treat. Are there any suggestions or perhaps home remedies to treat unknown protozoa? What about Reptaid, is this product safe, and effective to use on a young dragon?

 

[keschete]

I don't know the answer about the Reptaid...but I am with you about not treating with antibiotics and antiparasite meds.

Glad Em is doing well! Diablo is wrapped in a piece of fleece sleeping on my shoulder and he is about to shed, but he ate like a pig today! Mustard greens and red bell pepper and a bunch of crickets. He wasn't eating the last few days and after feeding him chicken and squash baby food...he is eating great.

The baby food got him over the stress and now he trusts me enough to eat out of my hand....they are really smarter than I thought!

 

[bayoupig5]

The baby food got him over the stress and now he trusts me enough to eat out of my hand....they are really smarter than I thought!

Off topic, but had to comment. Em will not eat anything if it does not move. Em will not eat a thing from my hand since the first few days I got him/her. In fact, if the food does not move around enough, such as slow Phoenix worms; I have to manually push them along to get eaten. Geez!!!

Still hoping someone can shed some light on this topic though.

 

[beardie parents]

You can try the reptaid. It seems to have helped Zoom's appetite, it just took a couple of months as she seemed to have wanted to sleep. I would go to the 'for sale' forum and check it out. It comes with a syringe to feed it to them but I would use a couple of drops from the dropper. The man who sells it is on that thread regarding it and you can email him with any questions you may have. It is several pages long. I haven't heard of any negative results from the use of it, mostly good results. There has been some people that said it didn't do much, but I only read about 2 or 3 of them.

Lori

 

[bayoupig5]

Thanks I'll check it out