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Originally Posted by mikoh4792
I'm getting mixed reviews. One poster here has told me that a snakes metabolism keeps producing digestive enzymes even right after regurgitation. I read elsewhere that snakes have this "gut flora" or bacteria that takes about a week to build up after regurgitation and that is needed to digest food.
What is your guys' take on this? I've tried searching the internet but I end up in places like yahoo answer, other forum boards..etc. I can't seem to find a legit article on this matter.
EDIT: Actually I just found an article on anapsid and it mentions something about the GI tract and esophagus up to the mouth being irritated by gastric fluids that come up during regurgitation. Maybe someone can shed some light on this as well.
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Yeah, the esophagus can be irritated but doesn't mean what you said. You said you'll give it a week for the digestive system to build back up. That has nothing to do with the esophagus.
Plenty of keepers actually feed the next day after a regurge. Snakes cannot wait a week in the wild for things to be okay if it happens. They need to be able to eat again right away if the opportunity arises because they just lost their latest meal and who knows how long it was before the last one. I doubt the esophagus or GI tract is really that damaged or irritated after a single one.
Link the article here. I'd like to see the scientific proof Ms. Kaplan has in her article.
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