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Hi I know we have all heard stories about cricket bites, but not many experience it. so I thot I would share my experience in the hope it helps other people & their Dragons.
We got up one morning to find one of our girls with a 1cm diameter wound in the back of her leg. Not a huge size to us, but for a beardie it's massive. The blood loss from it was very serious, I had to apply a preassure dressing to stop the bleeding until we could get her to our reptile vet. When we got her to the vet and he took the dressing off the bleeding immediately started again so the only thing they could do was staple the wound. He dressed the wound and then gave her antibiotics. Also due to the blood loss she was very anemic. Three weeks passed and we took her back on Monday for her check up.
The vet removed the dressing only to find the wound had not healed as he hoped it would. It was still quite weepy and mucky so she is still on antibiotics and now needs the wound flushed twice a day with an iodine solution. She is still anemic, tho slightly better than she was, but I have been told by the vet it could take her a few months to get back to normal. We how have to play the waiting game to see it the scab over the wound comes off naturally in the next couple of weeks, but if it has not came off in the next 3 weeks the vet will remove it when we go back for her to be checked again.
As you can see from having an injury on her leg it is taking such a long time for it to heal. We always try to be vigilant that there are no crickets in the vivs at night and out of our 6 dragons she is the only one this has happened to. But obviously there had been some hiding in the drift wood in the viv, we have now removed the driftwood and have a smoother Java Wood in it's place where there no little nooks and crannies for them to hide in and we have a good look round the viv before the lights go out to make sure there are definately none left and any that are we remove.
Here are a few pic of her leg too just so you can see the damage caused.
I know it goes on a bit, but hopefully it will help someone.
We got up one morning to find one of our girls with a 1cm diameter wound in the back of her leg. Not a huge size to us, but for a beardie it's massive. The blood loss from it was very serious, I had to apply a preassure dressing to stop the bleeding until we could get her to our reptile vet. When we got her to the vet and he took the dressing off the bleeding immediately started again so the only thing they could do was staple the wound. He dressed the wound and then gave her antibiotics. Also due to the blood loss she was very anemic. Three weeks passed and we took her back on Monday for her check up.
The vet removed the dressing only to find the wound had not healed as he hoped it would. It was still quite weepy and mucky so she is still on antibiotics and now needs the wound flushed twice a day with an iodine solution. She is still anemic, tho slightly better than she was, but I have been told by the vet it could take her a few months to get back to normal. We how have to play the waiting game to see it the scab over the wound comes off naturally in the next couple of weeks, but if it has not came off in the next 3 weeks the vet will remove it when we go back for her to be checked again.
As you can see from having an injury on her leg it is taking such a long time for it to heal. We always try to be vigilant that there are no crickets in the vivs at night and out of our 6 dragons she is the only one this has happened to. But obviously there had been some hiding in the drift wood in the viv, we have now removed the driftwood and have a smoother Java Wood in it's place where there no little nooks and crannies for them to hide in and we have a good look round the viv before the lights go out to make sure there are definately none left and any that are we remove.
Here are a few pic of her leg too just so you can see the damage caused.
I know it goes on a bit, but hopefully it will help someone.
