luckykarma
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LRI or pneumonia is common to our animals. While many of you insist on calling it URI it isn't as my vet chides me. These are lower respiratory issues unless there is discharge from the nose. Then its URI. Otherwise bubbles in the throat is from the lungs and lower respiratory.
I make this distinction again to help people further understand their animal's functions. Like humans phenomena is fluid in the lungs which will create suffocation if not treated.
When one of my chams was foaming at the mouth after I thought he was cured of LRI I called the vet who told me to get him into the shower and make it as steamy as possible. He went onto explain that we needed to get warm moisture breathed into the lung to facilitate the animal purging the fluids by having them come up into the throat and out of the lungs.
Recently our youngest cham had LRI and I treated with Baytril for 10 days. Only by the 7th day did he stop gapping. With the weird weather I think he got a chill and I started to see gaping again. I confirmed there were bubbles blocking his throat.
This time I gave him Baytril in conjunction with a warm mist humidifier in place of his cool mist. The vet had told me to get the humidity up as high as possible. I ran a elbow on the humidifier to let it flow right into the cage.
The cham went right towards it and sat there all day with his nose in the direction of the mist. When it was time to sleep he went over to the middle of the tree then did something I never saw a Cham do before. He got up and went back to the mist facing into it and slept there. I had it on him all night of course and when I checked his throat this morning it was 100% clear and he was moving around like nothing was wrong.
I'm not recommending only warm mist as a cure for LRI/pneumonia however, its proven itself essential to the animal for a speedy recovery and relief if you can't get to the vet fast.
I make this distinction again to help people further understand their animal's functions. Like humans phenomena is fluid in the lungs which will create suffocation if not treated.
When one of my chams was foaming at the mouth after I thought he was cured of LRI I called the vet who told me to get him into the shower and make it as steamy as possible. He went onto explain that we needed to get warm moisture breathed into the lung to facilitate the animal purging the fluids by having them come up into the throat and out of the lungs.
Recently our youngest cham had LRI and I treated with Baytril for 10 days. Only by the 7th day did he stop gapping. With the weird weather I think he got a chill and I started to see gaping again. I confirmed there were bubbles blocking his throat.
This time I gave him Baytril in conjunction with a warm mist humidifier in place of his cool mist. The vet had told me to get the humidity up as high as possible. I ran a elbow on the humidifier to let it flow right into the cage.
The cham went right towards it and sat there all day with his nose in the direction of the mist. When it was time to sleep he went over to the middle of the tree then did something I never saw a Cham do before. He got up and went back to the mist facing into it and slept there. I had it on him all night of course and when I checked his throat this morning it was 100% clear and he was moving around like nothing was wrong.
I'm not recommending only warm mist as a cure for LRI/pneumonia however, its proven itself essential to the animal for a speedy recovery and relief if you can't get to the vet fast.
