need help, injecting snake

[Malice]

I need information on injecting medication into the a snake. the HOW TO's etc.. I cant find any information on this. I hear it is very easy. I do have experience with people and am expereinces with needles.

thanks

[Malice]

does anyone know what area of the snake im supposd to put the medicine in?

thanks
the first 1/3?

[Herpkid101x]

somwhere along its back. i dont remember i still woundlt try it have a vet do it(not that im sayin u are gonna mess up but u never know)

[gonesnakee]

I'm going to SERIOUSLY suggest you get help from a vet. For starters what are you thinking about injecting? Why? Where was it obtained? How do you know if it is the correct medication & more importantly in the correct dosages? If you don't even know where to inject the snake yourself you should NOT be doing so. A trip to the vet will not only ensure the proper medication, but the proper dosage & administration of such as well. They will do the first one with you there & show you how to do so properly & then provide a prescription & instructions for you to do it properly yourself after that. Or you can just wing it as you are thinking of doing & risk killing your snake Do yourself & more importantly your snake a BIG favour & seek the proper help required. Mark

[Malice]

k.. got it... very easy stuff... i was injecting an anti parasite medication.

I got the stuff from the vet.. i just didnt want to keep coming back for them to do it, when i could do it myself!

hopefully the snake will be feeling better soon!

[gonesnakee]

For internal or external parasites? If for external parasties (mites) there are much safer, cheaper methods than injecting the snake. Plus injecting the snake only deals with the parasites that are actually feeding on it at the time & doesn't kill the rest of them or their eggs. As far as internal parasites go I would think the medication would be given orally, not injected, but could be wrong. If you are dealing with mites I suggest using the NIX treatment for snake mites. http://www.albertareptilesociety.org/caresheets/nix.pdf Vets will sometimes want to inject Ivomec I think its called for mites, not very safe or effective. Reptiles are very sensitve to medication specially when its injected. If not done in the correct dosage it can be fatal. So the vet didn't show you how to properly administer the medication when they first prescribed/administered it then? Any time I have had to get such medication the vet showed me once when the first injection was done at the office & then I did all the following injections myself at home. Maybe your vet just wants you to visit lots for the extra $ ? Good luck with your snake, Mark