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Originally Posted by Neon Aurora
I'm not closed off to new ideas. I can admit to being wrong. So you think keeping a desert species at 60% humidity is not going to cause health problems?
I guess the reason I question the need for a culture is because I don't even do a culture on myself when a bacterial RI is suspected. I had pneumonia and got broad spectrum antibiotics, no culture. The only time a vet wanted to do a culture was on a friend's cat who had an infection that just would not clear.
I can request a culture, if that is really the standard. I just thought it was pretty standard to do antibiotics when RI was suspected. That is what I have heard most of the time, what vets have told me, and what I did for my conda who is healthy now.
Taking her to the vet later today.
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It's good that you're open minded because that's how we
all learn. I can understand your hesitation based on what you've been told and what you've experienced. Could you imagine though how much quicker, easier, and less expensive it would have been for your friend to treat their cat if a culture was done
before treatment commenced? That's a great example of the "pants before underwear" statement that I made.
Is there a chance that your snake may be entering a shed cycle? Sometimes infrequent breathing noises that loosely resemble RI can occur before or during a shed cycle.
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Originally Posted by MDT
Andy, you know I get my info from Google and Dr. Oz 
(thanks for the kind words)
Neon, glad you're taking her to vet. Hopefully, they'll be clinically investigative and try to diagnose the illness. Keep us updated. We wish your animal all the best. |
Ha! Before I became a licensed optician, I used to be a licensed MLT and worked in the microbiology department and I dealt a lot with differential diagnosis techniques in order to aid MD's to prescribe correct treatment. Just calling it as I see it.
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