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theoddz · 12-08-2010, 09:18 PM

I want to thank everyone for their prayers, thoughts and well wishes for little Ivan.

I took Ivan to the veterinarian's office and he has a case of intestinal parasites. I guess frogs, even ones bred and raised in captivity, can tend to get a wide assortment of nematodes, protozoans, and trimatodes in their intestines. Anyway, it is treatable and I have a worming medication and an antibiotic for Ivan that should do the trick to get rid of the problem. The only hitch is that I have to get a small tuberculin syringe into his mouth to dispense about 1/10th of a cc of medicine. I have to do this for 5 days running and I have the other medication to put in his mouth every 2 weeks for 6 weeks. This should get rid of the worms. I never thought I'd be worming a frog.

Ivan should soon be on the mend and back to singing for crickets....and Myra.

~Theo~

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theoddz Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Cranky Old Poop Preferred Pronoun?: Mr. Beast Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Central Texas Posts: 3,537 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 11,111 Thanked 9,921 Times in 2,509 Posts Rep Power: 21474855	I want to thank everyone for their prayers, thoughts and well wishes for little Ivan. I took Ivan to the veterinarian's office and he has a case of intestinal parasites. I guess frogs, even ones bred and raised in captivity, can tend to get a wide assortment of nematodes, protozoans, and trimatodes in their intestines. Anyway, it is treatable and I have a worming medication and an antibiotic for Ivan that should do the trick to get rid of the problem. The only hitch is that I have to get a small tuberculin syringe into his mouth to dispense about 1/10th of a cc of medicine. I have to do this for 5 days running and I have the other medication to put in his mouth every 2 weeks for 6 weeks. This should get rid of the worms. I never thought I'd be worming a frog. Ivan should soon be on the mend and back to singing for crickets....and Myra. *~Theo~* __________________ *"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."* -- J. R. R. Tolkien