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What's the best emergency care? PLEASE HELP!

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This is what I found today:
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What's the best emergency treatment? I've had her under heat for about an hour; going to try baby food with a syringe right now. Should we soak her? Any secrets? I heard ketchup?

Meal worms, wax worms, crickets, bearded dragon bites, syringes.....we have it all. Any tips would be appreciated. Please don't blast me. This is not my beardie; I just took her today to try to save her. She has no energy and can barely lift her head, but is clearly starving to death. Here is my (fat) beardie:
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Poor thing...terrible condition ! Don't be shocked if she dies within hours or days, really. Brace yourself for it. Soaking may help only if she will take a drink while doing so, but I doubt it. Otherwise, do so for a very short and supervised amount of time, [ no more than 4-5 minutes] and don't repeat more than once a day if she doesn't drink...it will ad to her stress. Then dry her and warm her up immediately....under the heat lamp, not out in a wet towel, or even a dry one as she can not generate heat.Try a little baby food, but be sure she is actually swallowing, otherwise she will choke on it. There is something called Oxbow critical care that can be used for fattening her up...I just don't think she will make it. Is it in her best interest to provide aggressive treatment ? We really don't know when they are so far gone. Hope for the best but be ready for the worst.
 
She took a BIT of ketchup/water. we are thinking of trying some Repashy in a couple hours. Beardie has trouble swallowing...needs throat massaged. Yes, I am trying to document everything in case she doesn't make it :(
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Oh, I meant to say good for you for trying and for caring. Also, if you can get her on newspaper....that stuff she's on could have caused impaction for sure if she has eaten it....and do give her liquids via syringe if she'll take some. If you had an experienced reptile vet, they might save her, but again, I think she is far gone. I hope she beats the odds.
 
I'd me MUCH more concerned with her state of (de)hydration and I'd soak her in warm water daily for a few days, being extremely careful to keep her head above water. The increase in temperature and hydration may make her feel better.

I don't know about ketchup, but there's a lot I don't know.

I took in one BD (I have three rescues/adoptions plus my own BD) that was nearly as emaciated, even though I was toild he ate well. I kept him hydrated by daily soaks, which really helped revive him, and started feeding him tiny amounts of baby food. Squash, beans, applesauce, stuff like that. No meat products.

Be careful with feeding too generously until he can handle it.
 
The Repashy diet mixed with water would be far better than ketchup. Put a pinch of calcium D3 powder as well, if the Repashy doesn't contain it.
 
Thank you, Angie, for the great advice. We have 8 lizards and 30+ snakes, but I've never seen an animal like this. I don't think she's impacted or has parasites (but, again, I've never seen an animal like this). I think she's starving and I know that she was kept without any heat in a room that dips into the 50's. Kind of a catch-22.....she doesn't have any energy because she is starving and if I try to feed her too much/too fast I might stress her out and kill her.

Well, if I left her, she would have died for sure. We'll do our best :)
 
She just ate a few (about 3) milliliters of the Repashy/water. It does have D3. Now we are going to leave her alone for a few hours.

Thanks again, Angie!
 
Wow, kept in those temps. and in that condition, I would expect her to have a respiratory infection....does she have labored breathing ? It may be so shallow that you can't tell yet. I CAN see that her front legs look somewhat deformed , metabolic bone disease.
 
Thanks, Angie, and are these spots on her front shoulders from calcium deficiency? I remember seeing info on the graying, but don't remember what it was.
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I don't know what the spots are, I don't see any actually. That angle of her looks better by the way , and her legs are not that bad at all. The first pic looked worse, just the way her legs were folded.
 
Her legs are pretty rubbery. Her right rear seems to always be tucked under her. She's crawled a bit since we got her, but not enough to 'right' her leg. Yes, she has breathing issues (one deep, a bunch shallow). One fire at a time.....
 
Poor baby :(

Well, you seem to be taking care of her better than the last person. Just pace it or her body might go into schock taking in all this new stuff in.

And the black spots on the shoulders are suppose to be there :)
 
Yes, the dark " spots" are epaulets, if that's what you are referring to. And it sounds like she has a respiratory infection for sure. She's a pretty thing, poor girl. Keep her warm and never soak her at night, it could chill her before her lights go out. Keep her warm at night, too. If you can keep the tank around 80 degrees.
 
Will do. Our beardie's epaulets are in a different place....of course, she's pretty fat! They're a bit obscured by her neck/head. Less worms, methinks.
 
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