A little introduction, I have never owned a lizard and I currently do not have any pets. My last pet was 15 years ago.
I found a bearded dragon literally on my door frame on January 4th of this year. Their name is Yuri. Yuri was ice cold and really looked dead. I Brought Yuri inside warned him up, googled him, discovered he's not a native lizard so, I spent hours learning everything I could about his species while simultaneously hitting up all the pet and reptile stores in town gathering supplies for him.
After my hours of research
I felt like an informed new lizard ownee. Within a week or so I start to notice the outside of Yuri's mouth would get real crusty. The crusty substance was dark in color and sometimes with orangish hue patches. That is when I figured he either was an incredibly messy eater or he could have IInfectious stomatitis (mouth rot). I first made an appointedment with a local vet that had good reviews from other lizard owners. I then bought 3 over the counter cleaning solutions: Vetericyn Plus, a 4% anti-microcrobial cleanser solution (chlorhexidine). Additionally iunfiltered raw honey. I started to clean his mouth twice a day diluted of course and would end with applying honey. en't been able to see the inside of his mouth along his gums. wasn't able to ever look inside his mouth f never able to really see ondark colored crusted substance forming around the outside of his mouth remembering all I had just learned the I assumed it was mouth rot. I bought 2 different microcrobial solutions and unfiltered honey, cleaned his mouth twice a day, one morning while cleaning the outside of his mouth it started to bleed what looked like on the inside of right where I was cleaning. My eyes teared up and immediately made an appepp
I found a bearded dragon literally on my door frame on January 4th of this year. Their name is Yuri. Yuri was ice cold and really looked dead. I Brought Yuri inside warned him up, googled him, discovered he's not a native lizard so, I spent hours learning everything I could about his species while simultaneously hitting up all the pet and reptile stores in town gathering supplies for him.
After my hours of research
I felt like an informed new lizard ownee. Within a week or so I start to notice the outside of Yuri's mouth would get real crusty. The crusty substance was dark in color and sometimes with orangish hue patches. That is when I figured he either was an incredibly messy eater or he could have IInfectious stomatitis (mouth rot). I first made an appointedment with a local vet that had good reviews from other lizard owners. I then bought 3 over the counter cleaning solutions: Vetericyn Plus, a 4% anti-microcrobial cleanser solution (chlorhexidine). Additionally iunfiltered raw honey. I started to clean his mouth twice a day diluted of course and would end with applying honey. en't been able to see the inside of his mouth along his gums. wasn't able to ever look inside his mouth f never able to really see ondark colored crusted substance forming around the outside of his mouth remembering all I had just learned the I assumed it was mouth rot. I bought 2 different microcrobial solutions and unfiltered honey, cleaned his mouth twice a day, one morning while cleaning the outside of his mouth it started to bleed what looked like on the inside of right where I was cleaning. My eyes teared up and immediately made an appepp
