Golden Gate Geckos Slurry

[Golden Gate Geckos]

A experienced exotics vet can run a fecal off of a cloacal wash without needing the stool sample brought it.

Yes, my vet had to do a cloacal flush on one of my green tree pythons.

 

[M_surinamensis]

A experienced exotics vet can run a fecal off of a cloacal wash without needing the stool sample brought it. So in any case getting a anorexic gecko to a experience exotics vet, stress those words, will always be helpful. But the slurry is not only a good source of temporary nutrition but can also provide the stool for the techs to read.

It should be understood that cloacal washes are more likely to provide false negatives than fresh, properly handled fecal samples.

Although any given fecal examination, like most diagnostic techniques, is inherently capable of providing false negatives for a number of reasons. Mostly due to the life cycles and variable population densities of the parasitic or infecting organisms, occasionally as a consequence of dyes and stains not being effective tools for identifying all possible infections/population loads.

So it is not that washes, flushes and swabs should not be done, it's simply that they are a substitute, used when obtaining a more significant sample is an impossibility.

 

[snared99]

It should be understood that cloacal washes are more likely to provide false negatives than fresh, properly handled fecal samples.

Although any given fecal examination, like most diagnostic techniques, is inherently capable of providing false negatives for a number of reasons. Mostly due to the life cycles and variable population densities of the parasitic or infecting organisms, occasionally as a consequence of dyes and stains not being effective tools for identifying all possible infections/population loads.

So it is not that washes, flushes and swabs should not be done, it's simply that they are a substitute, used when obtaining a more significant sample is an impossibility.

I agree to a point. Being the individual whom gets those samples brought in by the clients for testing, I can tell you 80% of the time they are not handled properly and not very diagnostic. A cloacal wash can show a false negative, like all the other testing, but the proper fecal protocol is necessary. Using centrifugation for the cloacal wash material gives a much better outcome for Identification of the parasite then a float, which is mostly true for non washes. But it all depends what your trying to find and what the animal is presenting for.

 

[Dimidiata]

I must say, i was talking to a lady on FB about a leo she was caring for. He was extremley sick and the vet gave him a very little time. Not only did he survive but he was also on the slurry wich helped keep him alive afterwards. Marcia, your amazing! I directed her here incase she wanted to atest or vote.

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

Thanks, Sam! This is the second testament for the slurry I have heard of in the past couple of days. It makes my heart glad when a gecko is able to be rehabilitated with the help of the slurry!

 

[Dimidiata]

Yup, she started to eat mealies too, then the original owners came and got her and pretty much screwed it all up, their feeding her chicken babby food -_-, but the lady is working on it.