Swallowed something

[Zeus Crawford]

Have an urgent question-
We are still syringe feeding Zeus because she isn’t eating solids yet (she just started eating a couple bites of mustard greens, but that’s it). Anyway, today with her feed, she chomped down on the end of the syringe and the tip of it broke off. I think it broke off in her mouth. We opened her mouth to try and see and possibly remove it, but we can’t see it. If she swallowed it, what should we do? Help!

 

[KarrieRee]

Have an urgent question-
We are still syringe feeding Zeus because she isn’t eating solids yet (she just started eating a couple bites of mustard greens, but that’s it). Anyway, today with her feed, she chomped down on the end of the syringe and the tip of it broke off. I think it broke off in her mouth. We opened her mouth to try and see and possibly remove it, but we can’t see it. If she swallowed it, what should we do? Help!

If she swallowed it its gonna come out the other end --- is she behaving normally ? Black bearding? I have heard of dragons swallowing pennies

 

[Zeus Crawford]

She’s acting totally normal so far…how long do you think it’ll be before she passes it? She usually only poops about once a week.

 

[xp29]

Was it glass or plastic and hiw big was it?

 

[Zeus Crawford]

It was the plastic end of a 3mL medicine syringe, probably a half cm long, maybe 3mm diameter.

 

[Drache613]

Hello,

This is a very common occurrence! As stated most of the objects of that size usually are passed through pretty easily.
You can give soft foods such as sweet potato, squash & a couple of drops of olive or coconut oil for her a few times weekly. She adds should pass that through soon.

Tracie