izzbo
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I posted in another thread that my bearded dragon Klaude had caught pneumonia. He is 4 years old and I've had him since he's been a baby. He was on Baytril .16 ml per day and Z-Max .5 ml every 3 days. He didn't respond too well to the antibiotics and was restless and such. But after 3 weeks we went back and got follow up X-Rays. The pneumonia cleared up. They said do the antibiotics for 1 more week and you are good to go. We did that and ended his antibiotics on X-Mas morning (12/25). Well after a few days I was hoping he would return to his normal self but he hasn't so I took him back to the vet yesterday (12/30/2015). I got X-Rays again and all is clear. The pneumonia is gone.
Here is the issues he is having. He doesn't want to bask and when he does he still puts his head up like he is trying to open his airway and puffs out his throat if he is flatter. I used to give him baths every other day or so and gave him his first bath 2 days after the antibotics finished and he was puffing out his throat. I haven't noticed him doing this in the bath before. Could there still be an upper respiratory issue? There is no mucus or anything like that and no mouth gaping. He likes to sit at the bottom of his log w/his head on the log and looks tired. And I would say things are getting better, they are probably getting worse.
Any ideas? The vet is stumped but said give him a bit more time to get off his antibiotics and keep an eye on him. She said it's hard to see an upper respiratory infection on X-Ray but he had no signs of one in terms of the usual stuff they see but even w/the pneumonia he didn't have any real signs until the x-ray and was doing better until we started the antibiotics.
The only other changes we had was a 150 watt CHE that he used for 3 years burn out and got a new one (same brand and model) and are using a 100 watt one at night. I am using 8.5" clamp lamp for both of them.
Please help, any ideas would be great.
- Jason
Here is the issues he is having. He doesn't want to bask and when he does he still puts his head up like he is trying to open his airway and puffs out his throat if he is flatter. I used to give him baths every other day or so and gave him his first bath 2 days after the antibotics finished and he was puffing out his throat. I haven't noticed him doing this in the bath before. Could there still be an upper respiratory issue? There is no mucus or anything like that and no mouth gaping. He likes to sit at the bottom of his log w/his head on the log and looks tired. And I would say things are getting better, they are probably getting worse.
Any ideas? The vet is stumped but said give him a bit more time to get off his antibiotics and keep an eye on him. She said it's hard to see an upper respiratory infection on X-Ray but he had no signs of one in terms of the usual stuff they see but even w/the pneumonia he didn't have any real signs until the x-ray and was doing better until we started the antibiotics.
The only other changes we had was a 150 watt CHE that he used for 3 years burn out and got a new one (same brand and model) and are using a 100 watt one at night. I am using 8.5" clamp lamp for both of them.
Please help, any ideas would be great.
- Jason