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[cece4410]

Hi I just went to the vet they said two of my balls have it, I have done some reading and they have never regered there food the are not star gazing. They did a fecal exam. And said it is possitive. They have a discharge.
Any advice would be welcome
Thank You

[Buck_99]

[cece4410]

said she has a call to k-state in and trying to locate medicine for them and wants me to keep collecting stool samples. The discharge is from the vent.
Thank you so Much

[RonCrawford]

Cryptosporidium: Health Threat to Humans and Reptiles by Melissa Kaplan

Cryptosporidium affects humans as well as wild and captive animals. Humans and captive animals can become infected when drinking contaminated water (and the majority of municipal water supplies do not eradicate or kill Cryptosporidium, nor do most water purification devices people attached to their faucets or main water lines). When herp keepers feed their captive herps wild-caught prey, they are also exposing their herps to the risk of Cryptosporidium. Cryptosporidium can be relatively benign in healthy humans and animals, but can be deadly in those who are immunocompromised and otherwise considered to be at high risk for bacterial, viral and parasitic infections. Since captive herps, especially wild-caught ones, are always stressed to some degree, feeding wild-caught prey increases their risk of contracting parasites. [full article]

[Buck_99]

I'm sorry, all I can do is defer to your vet for treatment. Maybe someone else on the forum has greater resources than I have available to me in my office, but the information I found online doesn't look good and doesn't say much about treatment.

I hope your snakes recover. If you have others, I highly recommend you quarantine them and sterilize all your equipment.

Here are two articles I found:

http://www.addl.purdue.edu/newsletters/1996/summer/snakes.shtml

http://www.indigosnakes.com/Reptilian%20Crypto.htm


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[cece4410]

We do not feed any of our animals wild prey we get our mice and rats at a pet store. Do you think it could be something else.
Thanks