Removal of Worms

I just recently received a WC female Ambanja and noticed WORMS Oh no...lol. Anyways, just some pics of removing worms.

With Worms:



The worms:



Hanging out with only one worm:



And I had a feeling there were more...and there were:



I think I got them all out no prob. She didn't even know I took her out of the cage. Here she is after the 5 minute surgery:




Ok some of my thoughts. I work with WC all the time and see worms and other strange issues pretty often. I know that many times we hear the word filarial worm thrown out all the time when we see worms that are sub-Q. Well from what I have seen these worms are the exact same that I have seen after necropsies of animals that have died from worms normally in what I think is their stomach. The only difference is the worms in the stomach are a little larger and green (still very transparent but the green is whatever they have consumed). I feel that is because the ample supply of nutrients in the digestive tract. I think these are the same worms that are in the GI tract that somehow moved into the skin where there isn't as much nutrients so they are smaller. Ohh yea, and I think this girl has some internal worms mainly because her stomach isn't small yet her head caps are super thin. Just thinking out loud.

Chris

What a good looking girl! She's lucky to have such a good owner, I'm sure it is much less stressful on her to take the worms out at home, rather a trip to the vet.

crazy...to think that we got weird stuff like that in our bodies is trippy...

how did you remove them i dont even see a mark

How do you go about getting the worms out?? I imagine you just made a tiny slit over, or at the end of the worm, and then grabbed a hold and pulled out? CRAZY!!!!

Anyways, good work im sure she thanks you for it

So how do you remove those? do you put a cut in the skin and grab them? also you just use like peroxide? to clean it? She sure is pretty

yes i didn't see a mark either all i saw was the small scissors on the paper towel

Quite a difference between filarial worms

... and those that inhabit the GI tract. Lots of info about them throughout the web that might not require so much guesswork as to what they are, how they live, what "motivates" them, etc. Pretty girl. Good luck !

Yep the tools you see are the tools I used. Chameleons aren't like you think, you cut them and they don't necessarily bleed. But there is a small mark, but not bad, it wasn't my first rodeo

-chris

Poor girl! Looks like it hurt

Do they stress alot when you remove them or struggle???