There seems to be something wrong with my Brazilian turtle's eyes. I can't open it. And there seems to be inflammation in the posterior fossa. Who knows what to do?
It is GG's white eye disease, mostly caused by unclean feeding water. Your GG is not seriously ill.
Don't worry, you can give GG eye drops for people to use (the variety is not limited), and put them into the water after half an hour, and add less salt to the water for sterilization. GG has a strong self-healing ability. If it is not too serious, dry farming can be ignored, and it is easy to dehydrate GG in summer.
Let GG get more sunshine (avoid exposure in summer) and keep the water clean. It is best to keep the water level in the cylinder and let GG stick his neck and nose out of the water. Just put a stone in the water and let GG bask in his back.
Just feed it once a day, and the amount should be controlled to the extent that GG can finish it in half an hour. Too much will affect the cleanliness of water.
Tortoise's food range is very wide, including animal food, plant food and compound food:
First, animal food. Mainly fish, shrimp, earthworms, Tenebrio molitor, snails, mussels, animal offal and so on. The remaining chickens and ducks can be fed to turtles.
Second, plant food. Mainly bananas, corn, soybeans, wheat, vegetables and so on.
Third, compound food. It is mainly made of animal food and plant food through reasonable collocation and processing. If properly matched, this kind of food is rich and balanced, which is beneficial to the growth and development of soft-shelled turtle.
Important matters:
The landlord quickly bought azithromycin dispersible tablets, Baiduobang ointment and levofloxacin eye drops for turtles, and gave levofloxacin eye drops to healthy turtles for dry cultivation to prevent turtle eye diseases from being highly contagious. After the drug is absorbed, put it into water and use it every 2 hours, with 2-3 drops each time. The sick turtle can't open his eyes now, so he needs medicine. Open your eyes gently and rinse your eyes with 3-4 drops of levofloxacin first. 10 minutes later, after the eye drops are absorbed completely, apply Baiduobang ointment to the affected part of his eyes for dry maintenance. Apply the medicine three times a day, once in the morning and once in the evening to ensure that the medicine can fully act on the affected area. Pay attention to washing hands before taking medicine to prevent operation pollution. In order to ensure the effectiveness of the drug, it is necessary to open the eyelids and apply the drug, otherwise it will have no effect. This is the key to cure. If you have eye diseases, don't use eye drops in your eyes, but use them on your eyelids. Certainly not, and neither can turtles. It may feel bad to open the turtle's eyelids for the first time, but you will become more and more skilled after mastering the method, but be careful not to hurt it. You can't open it with your fingers or cotton swabs. It's much easier to find a better one. The most common ones are needles and toothpicks that every family has. Of course not with a needle tip ~! Instead, use a toothpick stick! Dial horizontally, thin and easy to operate, safer than ordinary steel needle. Stick to applying the medicine three times a day, and gradually the condition will be suppressed and improved. You can also open your eyes slowly. The effect of Baiduobang is much better than that of chlortetracycline erythromycin eye ointment. Once the eye symptoms are relieved, you can open them slightly, and immediately use levofloxacin eye drops once every 1 hour with a frequency of 1 time. You can't order medicine on time at night, and apply Baiduobang ointment to the affected area of your eyes. Great progress will be made soon. When you open your eyes completely, you will see the white membrane of inflammatory lesions, which is the reason for the white eyes. That white membrane is the tortoise's instantaneous membrane, and it is absolutely impossible to pick it out or remove it. The landlord must not forcibly remove the inflamed transient membrane according to some online circulation. It is necessary to ensure that the dosage of levofloxacin eye drops is 1 hour 1 time, and the white film will gradually fade after dripping into turtle eyes. After the inflammation is eliminated, it will fade back to normal, become transparent and colorless, and continue to play a role in protecting turtle eyes. If it is forcibly removed, the damage to its eyes is irreparable and its condition will recover soon.
In addition to the usual dry eye care, give it a medicated bath with azithromycin dispersible tablets for about 3 hours each time. Dispersible tablets are different from ordinary tablets and have the best water solubility. After the tablets are fully mixed in water, put the tortoise in it. I was very tired after suffering from the supercilious look. It is estimated that my physical strength should be seriously overdrawn now, and I can't sink into the water normally after entering the water. Use a common washbasin that is scrubbed and disinfected, and a basin of 1 Archie dispersible tablets filled with water. In order to avoid cross-infection, it is necessary to clean the basin soaked in water, which can be disinfected by dropping water in proportion and cleaning the residual disinfectant. Didi is relatively safe. Do not use 84 disinfectant to disinfect water, which is too irritating and not suitable for turtles. Take it out after soaking in water and give it dry eye drops. When soaking in water, keep the water temperature at about 25-28 degrees with a heating rod, which is beneficial to its recovery.
Nutrition is very important during illness, otherwise you will not be able to persist because of physical exhaustion. It's 65438+ February, and the weather is getting colder and colder. Without heating, it will lose its appetite. The key factor of turtle's activity and appetite depends on the water temperature. Use a heating rod to raise the water temperature to a constant temperature of about 28 degrees, put it in and let it adapt for a while before feeding. Buy some fresh small fish and wash the shrimp for them to eat. Turtles love to eat and are very nutritious. If it can't open its eyes when it is sick, cut fresh small fish and shrimp into small pieces of appropriate size and put tweezers in front of its nose and mouth to lure it to eat. Be patient, because it can't see. Sometimes it takes a few minutes to lure it to eat. This year, when it is well, it must be warmed up. Therefore, heating rods are also necessary tools. I just got sick and I am very weak, so I need to warm up and recuperate. The water temperature is set at about 25 degrees. Usually, we don't feed raw pork and other livestock meat, but feed fish and shrimp. Take care of yourself for a while before feeding turtle food. All the above are personal original experiences, not random plagiarism. Please take a closer look. Although the incidence of white eye disease is high immediately, the tortoise can recover completely if it is treated carefully with drugs immediately.
On the one hand, it's pneumonia upstairs, which can explain the panting in the mouth. You can take a closer look. If it is really pneumonia, the turtle's nostrils will be blocked with snot, and you have to breathe through your mouth. If it's true, I suggest seeing a doctor instead of soaking it with drugs. This medicated bath is only useful for treating exogenous diseases, but it needs injection. My turtle once had this disease, and it didn't get any better after long-term feeding with medicine and food. Finally, I got an injection in a hospital in Beijing (it seems that it's not just antibiotics, I forgot specifically. It seems to be imported from Germany. Don't inject blindly, the dose must be controlled accurately, otherwise it will be very, very dangerous), but it may be too long, so now it is also very sensitive to low temperature. But you also said that the turtle's eyes are closed, or it may be white eye disease. Can you see that its eyes are swollen? Because of the flooding of bleaching powder in urban water, turtles are prone to get this disease if they soak in it for a long time. If you find similar symptoms, you must use eye drops quickly, because for turtles, any part of the body will evolve into systemic functional weakness, such as pneumonia that affects eating and digestion, and eye diseases. As for eye drops, I haven't found the right one yet. I suggest you ask a doctor or use the cheapest one. Because many eye drops are expensive, there are many mixed things, and the actual medical effect is not good. Be sure to put them in a dry environment as much as possible. This disease can't be soaked in water, it's a bubble disease. But I'm not sure what you mean by neck. I hope it works for you. It is recommended to move it to a dry environment and heat it to about 30 degrees with a heating pad (special for crawling pets). I don't know which city you are in. Anyway, the temperature in the north is still low. Take it to the doctor. Eye diseases are associated with pneumonia, but it is recommended not to try anything taken orally. At that time, after my turtle recovered, we saw that there was no rice, soup and medicine during that time.
Diagnosis: in the early stage of white eye disease, the eyes produce a small amount of secretions, inflammation, congestion and swelling. In the middle and late stage, conjunctiva is completely infected and adhered, corneal erosion, severe infection of instantaneous membrane, congestion, whitening, thickening, covering eyeball, closing eyes, refusing to eat or even drinking water, and mental fatigue.
Treatment:
1, mild to moderate infection, chloramphenicol eye drops every hour during the day and erythromycin eye ointment at night. Oral azithromycin.
2, serious infection, it is recommended to use antibiotics for injection. Chloramphenicol eye drops and erythromycin eye ointment for external use.
Advice: Never try to peel off and cut off the bloodshot, white and thickened white membrane covering the eyeball with a blade, because it is the instantaneous membrane in the turtle's eyes.
When necessary (4 or 5 days after injection of antibiotics), smooth tweezers can be used to gently scrape off and clip off the yellow pus or abscess on the surface of conjunctiva and blink membrane, which is not easy to be discharged by itself. When cleaning the yellow pus or abscess between the instant membrane and the cornea, the cleaning method of pushing, squeezing and clamping should be adopted, and the operation must be extra careful. The infectious, bloodshot, whitish and thickened transient membrane covering the eyeball will gradually return to normal under the action of antibiotics.
Are the eyelids white and swollen?
If it is, it is a white eye.
Treatment:
Buy cotton swabs and erythromycin eye ointment
Put the ointment on the cotton swab.
Roll on the turtle's eyelids.
Be sure to put the medicine in the turtle's eyes.
This is very important.
Three times a day!
Still have to raise.
Dry farming is not without water.
Soak them in water regularly every day (during which you can eat and excrete)
twice a day
Each time 15 minutes
Do it at other times.
If the tortoise doesn't eat,
Buy glucose powder and soak it in water to keep your strength.
Sprinkle it in the water every day.
Be sure to pay attention to the temperature during this period ~
Don't let the tortoise catch a cold and cause pneumonia ~
Acute half a day and died.
At the same time, put it in a dark place, out of the sun.