1. Treatment of tortoise pneumonia
1. Find sick tortoises and treat them in time. It is isolated, and the temperature of the diseased turtle breeding environment is maintained at about 28-30 °C.
2. Treatment methods for mild to moderate pneumonia in turtles: Azithromycin or amoxicillin can be used for sick turtles with symptoms such as runny nose or water from the nose, refusal to feed and water, open mouth to breathe, and flank. It was treated with water bath, and the water ratio was 0.5g of medicine/500ml of water, and the medicine was soaked in water once a day. During the period, it is necessary to give medicine to the sick turtle. After crushing a small amount of amoxicillin and a small amount of twenty-one gold vitamin, add a small amount of raw eggs and stir well, and then give the sick turtle to drink. The specific operation is as follows: prepare a syringe, inhale the liquid medicine and hold it in your hand, then when the sick turtle stretches its head, the other free hand opens the sick turtle’s mouth, and then use the syringe to pour the liquid medicine into the sick turtle’s mouth. By mouth, the medicine is given twice a day.
3. Treatment of severe tortoise pneumonia: if a turtle with pneumonia has symptoms such as white circles around the eyes, gradual weight loss, vomiting blood, and shrinking head, it means that the symptoms of pneumonia are already very serious. At this time, the diseased turtle needs to be injected with drugs. After adding 1g of ceftriaxone sodium to 10ml of water, inject the drug solution into the diseased turtle by intramuscular injection. Each injection is 0.3ml, twice a day.
Second, nursing methods for turtles suffering from pneumonia
Water turtles suffering from pneumonia After the disease, its normal respiratory function will be hindered. If you continue to put it into water for breeding, it is likely to cause it to choke and aggravate pneumonia. In many cases, even if the turtle is healthy, in the case of its respiratory dysfunction, it may cause the turtle to choke on water, or even cause death due to choking. Therefore, generally water turtles are reluctant to go into the water after suffering from pneumonia. This is a way of self-protection for water turtles. If the turtle is unwilling to go into the water, the pet owner must not force it to go into the water.
For a turtle with mild pneumonia, if it is still willing to go into the water, the pet owner can raise it in shallow water, pay attention to control the water level, and the water level is suitable for the feet of the sick turtle. But even if the sick turtle is raised in shallow water, care should be taken to avoid the sick turtle from choking on the water, and a landing platform should be set up for it so that the sick turtle can rest out of the water.
For diseased turtles with severe pneumonia, they should be dry-raised, but the humidity of the dry-raising environment should be kept between 40 and 70. Sick turtles need to be fed water during dry-feeding. If the diseased turtle drinks less water or refuses to drink water, in addition to the necessary anti-inflammatory infusion every day, it is also necessary to rehydrate it 1-2 times a day to prevent the diseased turtle from dehydration. Sick turtles can be rehydrated with 5% glucose injection or glucose and sodium chloride injection.
The above is the treatment method for tortoise pneumonia that we introduced. It will cause more harm to its body and increase the difficulty of treatment.
