yemen skin/tail problem

[justjumpit621]

staph infections cause sores, boils, loss of hair (in furry pets), and death if left untreated. You should bring it up. Is your vet a specialist?

 

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i think if this vet just says put her down i may go for a second oppinion but i dont know where to go. i only no of one reptile vet in my area.

 

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i know they do reptiles but i dont know how well the now about chameleons
might try the glasgow vet school

 

[justjumpit621]

where are you located? Some members on here may be able to help you. Between all of us I think at least someone would know. As for my opinion, I am studying to be a herpetologist and I work at a veterinary clinic and to me this definitely looks and sounds like a staph infection. If you ask your vet to do a bacterial culture of the wounds to verify if it is staph they should be able to give you antibiotics. You don't have to be a specialist to verify that is is in fact staph.

 

[justjumpit621]

I might go there for graduate veterinary college. Is it nice?

 

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i actually have never been there before but i think its quite nice a few of my vet nurse friends go there. well i think when i go i will ask the vet to check if its a staph infection and also if she could check if she has a calcium defficency to.

 

[justjumpit621]

Sounds good. Also maybe check for hyperthyroidism, sisnce she is loosing weight but eating a lot. That is usually the calling card for hyperthyroidism. Can chameleons get diabetes also?

 

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i dont know if they can get diabetis yeah maybe. i'll just get them to check everything lol

 

[justjumpit621]

lol okay. I was looking around and diabetes in chameleons is uncommon but not impossible.

 

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well hopefully the vet will listen to me and check her out for some of these things and we can get to the bottom of this. if not i will def go see someone else. i'll let you know how i get on 2morro with her.

 

[kinyonga]

You said..."she doesnt want to give her an injection cause they normally inject the tain and obv they cant do it there as its infected"...in my 20+ years of experience with chameleons, not one vet I know of has ever injected antibiotics into the tail. With their renal system if the injection is given "below the waist" so to speak the medication does them no good. Typically the injection is given in the upper arm.

A culture and sensitivity test of the exudate from the tail sores would tell you what bacteria is involved and also what medication would tread it. If it comes back showing no bacteria (and even if it does) it also might be worth testing for fungus.

Does it start out looking like little pox/blisters?

Hope you get it to the vet soon since you said its getting worse.

 

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hi just to let you guys no we had kiwi at the vet yestarday and it was decided that it was in her best intrests to put her to sleep. she wasent responding to any of the meds she was on and in general she was just looking more and more ill. the skin infection was spreading all the way up her tail to her vent.
seams am not having much luck the past week as my 3 year old cat who went in for a few teeth out died while recovering and a week later i had to make the hardest choice to put kiwi to sleep.
RIP Kiwi & Foster

 

[jannb]

I am so sorry to hear about your loss of Foster and now Kiwi. My heart goes out to you. Jann

 

[Miss Lily]

What an awful week. It's hard enough losing one pet, let alone two. Sadly, these things often happen in pairs. A few years ago, I had to have my first suggie put to sleep, and the following morning our elderly cat suffered a blood clot and she had to be put to sleep too. The hardest few days ever - ones that will be forever etched in our minds.

Try to remember all the good times and the happy memories that you have. Thinking of you.