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How to give an IM injection to a boa?

Front third of the boa, on one side or the other in the muscle of the neck. Slip the point of the needle under a scale and then into the critter. One of you holds the snake, the other gives the shot.

Baytril is usually given every 3 days for 30 days. I alternate sides for mine.
 
Thanks Richard.

Did you give tablets or does it come as a drinkable liquid? Last time I thought I had a problem there were only tablets available, so I crushed them up and pipetted a suspension into their throats. Didn't make me popular with the snakes, and not sure it was effective, but it was all I had at the time. Do you remember the dosage you gave?
 
Hi Helen
It was a clear liquid and I’m sure it was 10mm every day for day days,the vet just told me to make sure it went to the back of the throat , my 6ft boa wasn’t impressed but he never once nipped me, he is a big softie anyway but if there ever was a time ,I’m Sure it would of been then[emoji4]


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Also, a 45 degree angle at entry helps ensure it stays in the muscle and doesn't go into the body cavity. It honestly isn't too bad, but you keep smaller species which can be a bit more challenging.
 
Thank for that, James. He's currently about 3 Kg and 1.5m long, so it shouldn't be too hard. He's not so small as to be fragile, and not so big it will take 6 of us to hold him...

He was wheezing and gaping this morning, after 3 weeks of not showing symptoms, so it's definitely time to get real help. I've spent the morning making a digest of Baytril in Reptiles info for my vet who usually sees cats and dogs and very little else.
 
Well, I sucessfully gave my first Baytril injection yesterday at the vet's office, surrounded by a fascinated vet and 3 technicians, none of whom had even touched a snake before. (We are taking some of the healthy ones in on Saturday to run a handling session for them).

So now it's just fingers crossed, I'm giving injections every 2 days for the next 4 weeks.
 
Good luck with the baytril,hope it works

That’s good your able to give some training sessions to the vets,at least it will benefit you in the future


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richardhind1972 said:
Good luck with the baytril,hope it works
That’s good your able to give some training sessions to the vets,at least it will benefit you in the future
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Well, it's a gamble as we don't have a veterinary lab here to run swabs to ID the infectious agent (heck, they don't do that for people here half the time), so we don't actually know its bacterial, nor which bacteria it might be, but at this point anything is better than nothing, which is what I had before.

I'll try and post some photos once we do our handling training :).
 
Hi Helen, how’s it going with the respiratory infection , have the injections done the job. And cleared it all up,Cheers Rich


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Sorry to hear that he’s. It improved as much as you would of liked, ok I will follow the progress on there, cheers rich


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