Worms, coccidia,&urates.

[pudden318]

Ok i have a few questions, let me start from the begining i had to bring my new dragon nxy to the vet today since i got her the week of thanksgiving all the way from washington she's been acting slugish i figured it was just relocation stress cause she never showed in stress marks are dark berds. Well its been a month no improvement so i brought her in for a fecal today and poor girl has high counts of coccidia, pinworms, and hookworms. :roll: (i feel like such a bad mommie i didnt bring her in sooner) but anyway since she has been in contact with my other two girls her age they are all on albon and pancur. Tonight they were all dosed and viv scrubed and rescrubed even though hubby say u can preform surgery in any one of my vivs at any time.(i have ocd and cleaning things is one of my biggest issues everything has to be disinfected. i drive him insane when i bleach the cups we drink out of long story lol ) anyway after their meds and soy yogurt they all got 30 min soaks in the tub( and tub got bleached lol) hands are raw at moment from all the scrubing. I noticed my radiant red was lil on the dark side today figured she need to poop so put her water a lil warmer and when she did go she had a small urrate and it was a lil on the yellow side normally shes my perfect poopie girl so i was a lil concerend (next part is gross) so i picked it out the water to look at it well when i did that it kinda felt like sand. it was on the gritty side. so my questions are what could be causing the nasty urrate? I read there is a few dragon on here dealing with the pancur and albon is it really that hard on all dragons right now mine seem to be eating fine, when should i start the babyfood? the vet said to give pancur every 7 days for 4 dose's does this sound right? and albon every day for 5 days? Any words of advice woud be greatly apperciated. Ive never had sick dragons all mine have always been heathly and parasite free. i know this comes from the breeder i got her from cause i raise all my feeders and everything is always scrubed clean. i feel like such a bad mommie right now its driving me nuts. uuugghhh

 

[EmJagsz]

I don't really have much advice for you situation but I would be careful with the albon..... I think I read somewhere that giving too much could cause yellow fungus (or something like that) in beardies...

 

[Drache613]

Hello,

The grittiness of the urate could be from calcium supplementation or sand if you are using sand as a substrate.
The dose regime for Albon is normally 7-10 days on average, so 5 is fine & it should knock out the coccidia. The Panacur is given once weekly for up to 2 or 3 treatments to kick the worms.
What is the dosage being given to them currently?

The meds are hard on them so keeping them hydrated will be really important for them. You can start the babyfood anytime that you want to. You can even mix the probiotic in with it as well, if you want to. Daily baths will help too.

Let us know how they are doing.

Tracie

 

[zebraflavencs]

Hey Tracie... She bathes every other day, so I figured it was too much calcium...
No sand as substrate, only tile.
Janie

 

[pudden318]

the pancur she premeasured for me in seringes 0.04 cc every7 days for 4 doses and the albon is 0,2ml every day for 5 days. all 3 took them like champs didnt give me any trouble hopefully its stays that way. and they love their strawberry soy yogurt.