mouth infection

[sammer021486]

I do not know how I could miss something this bad for this long. I do regular checks of my geckos for cuts or stuck shed. How I missed this I just really do not know.

I called up the only reptile vet in the city closest to me and the apt is $75+tax (Not a problem), the problem is I can not get in to see him until Feb 1, because he is in surgery the day I could possibly make it, off the following day, then gone on Vacation.

I may have to bring her into my cats & dogs vet, he said that he would look at them when I asked last year, but that he really does not have a clue how to treat them.

This is the part that really peeves me, I got her in October and you can clearly see the inflammation in the picture then

 

[ElapidSVT]

well, it can't hurt to swab it with some hydrogen peroxide.
do you feed superworms? i've seen my geckos get something similar. the first time my gf at the time pulled a splinter of something from the lip of one leo. it happened to another and i was unable to remove anything. after a few months it went away.

if the animal is eating normally and not losing weight i'd swab it with peroxide and then put a little antibiotic on it a couple times a week and see how it does.

good luck!
rob

 

[sammer021486]

I do feed super worms, but she had this from her previous owner who was afraid to feed super worms because of the myth of mealworms. I far as I know she feed them crickets, silkies and hornworms. The owner kept another male and female in the tank along with this girl. Plus owner said that this girl was not a big eater. Since I've had her she has the biggest appetite of my 6 leos.

 

[JordanAng420]

Has the gecko ever been force fed with a syringe? It looks like a traumatic injury caused by a foreign object..a few of my bad eaters have had something similar too, after chomping on a syringe.

 

[sammer021486]

Has the gecko ever been force fed with a syringe? It looks like a traumatic injury caused by a foreign object..a few of my bad eaters have had something similar too, after chomping on a syringe.

I honestly do not know if she was ever force feed. I will have to ask her previous owner, but I am not sure if she would admit that she force feed the gecko. This little gecko was through a lot when she was first purchased. Due to a communication error she was shipped when the weather at the destination was very cold, she made it but the other 2 shipped with her never did. The seller was kind enough to refund the previous owners expenses due to the communication error. The owner was dealing with one employee and that employee was away for a while and the shipping log said to ship the geckos, so they were shipped.

Then when I was purchasing her, her owner said that she was not an aggressive eater, so there is a good possibility that she may have been force feed. When I got her I placed her in a tank with heat cable as I was waiting for the heat mats to come in, I never attempted to feed her for a few days to make her hungry, then I started giving her crickets and mealworms, as many as she would eat and she never showed any signs of a sore jaw by refusing food, no sores from rubbing against things in her tank.

The only time I have forced feed (with another gecko), all I did was squish a cricket, then rubbed the crickets juices against the leos mouth, it eventually grabbed the cricket and ate it.

 

[sammer021486]

Previous owner says that she was never force fed and that the little female the owner has now also has the same bumps and that it is normal for the gecko to have those bumps. I am not sure if she was able to see the bump in the picture of my phantom just after getting her. I know that they have larger scales around the mouth, that are more noticeable, but not bumps like seen in the picture.

 

[sammer021486]

I did a treatment on her mouth last night with a diluted 1% betadine treatment. I touched the area with the soaked q-tip, rinsed with RO water and then applied some triple antibiotic w/o pain killers.

I also have peroxide but decided to give the betadine a try, if it is not the thing to do then I will use the peroxide

 

[sammer021486]

GREAT NEWS

Tonight I decided to give the peroxide a try and after 3 dabs of the soaked q tip what ever was in the sore came out, I was too slow though and she swallowed it, before I could grab it on the q-tip. Now there is a hole there and I have placed the antibiotic on the sore.

 

[sammer021486]

Quick update.

I have been treating the area with peroxide and the swelling has gone done to almost nothing, there is still a small visible hole at the sore, but the bubbling from the peroxide is getting less and less. After each treatment I place a small dab of triple antibiotic on it.

I am still not sure what it was that was in the sore, but is gone now and she seems to be doing just fine.

 

[StopperExotics]

I'm so glad she's doing well Sam! Our Monty has done an almost complete recovery so far, as well. Just some swelling and almost no bubbling from the peroxide now!