Hello.
My bearded dragon has a history of Respiratory infections. Right now, I'm treating her for some unknown infection. But not a respiratory infection. I'm treating her with 0.3 ml of SMZ-TMP every other day, and I have only one day left of the treatment. Three days after I began the treatment (about 2 weeks ago), I noticed heavy breathing in my dragon. Now two days ago, she started to close one eye often, and then, small, clear, flat, solid pieces of something started to appear, and they would stick to her eyelid. When she had the respiratory infection, there were many other symptoms that are now missing:
1) Excessive gaping
2) the closing of both eyes, one at a time, and then the shaking of her head
3) hiding
4) "pushing" with every breath.
5) green poop
6) Larger, yellow/green eye discharge
7) Other means of open-mouth breathing
8 ) Bubbles in mouth, excess saliva
Symptoms that are present:
1) heavy breathing (chest puffing out), though not as severe
2) closing eyes (but no shaking)
3) possible eye discharge, but is smaller, white, and in other ways different
Why am I worried?
I've actually given SMZ-TMP before (I administered it for a month), but I stored it incorrectly and I'm worried that antibiotic resistance was able to build up because of that.
My bearded dragon has a history of Respiratory infections. Right now, I'm treating her for some unknown infection. But not a respiratory infection. I'm treating her with 0.3 ml of SMZ-TMP every other day, and I have only one day left of the treatment. Three days after I began the treatment (about 2 weeks ago), I noticed heavy breathing in my dragon. Now two days ago, she started to close one eye often, and then, small, clear, flat, solid pieces of something started to appear, and they would stick to her eyelid. When she had the respiratory infection, there were many other symptoms that are now missing:
1) Excessive gaping
2) the closing of both eyes, one at a time, and then the shaking of her head
3) hiding
4) "pushing" with every breath.
5) green poop
6) Larger, yellow/green eye discharge
7) Other means of open-mouth breathing
8 ) Bubbles in mouth, excess saliva
Symptoms that are present:
1) heavy breathing (chest puffing out), though not as severe
2) closing eyes (but no shaking)
3) possible eye discharge, but is smaller, white, and in other ways different
Why am I worried?
I've actually given SMZ-TMP before (I administered it for a month), but I stored it incorrectly and I'm worried that antibiotic resistance was able to build up because of that.