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Posted by Harry's Dad on June 04, 1999 at 22:05:50:

In Reply to: sick iggy in drug store, now in my house. Need advice. posted by sucker on June 04, 1999 at 21:26:46:

Sucker,

LOL thanks for posting here and welcome to our forum. Well it sounds like you have a iglet that is in real bad shape. I'd look at finding some ALL natural baby food (greens only) and then mix some Vitamins in with a small amount of it...it may come down to you "force" feeding to get something into your igs system. He maybe too weak to even eat. If you can get your iglet to start eating the next step would be, in my opinion, is to take a stool sample into a Vet to have checked out and to have a blood workup done too. Your iglet may have internal problems. If you can hand feed your iglet....great. But I wouldn't wait too long to get something down him/her, iglets can't go very long without some kind of intake. Puree food and a small amount of Vitamins would be a great start. Just watch out for over dosing a sick iguana, sometimes when this happens it sends the iguana into system shock and the body pretty much shuts down.
Hope some other people here have some more suggestions.

Again welcome to the forum and we hope you will stay here and work with the group.
HD

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: Sucker, : LOL thanks for posting here and welcome to our forum. Well it sounds like you have a iglet that is in real bad shape. I'd look at finding some ALL natural baby food (greens only) and then mix some Vitamins in with a small amount of it...it may come down to you "force" feeding to get something into your igs system. He maybe too weak to even eat. If you can get your iglet to start eating the next step would be, in my opinion, is to take a stool sample into a Vet to have checked out and to have a blood workup done too. Your iglet may have internal problems. If you can hand feed your iglet....great. But I wouldn't wait too long to get something down him/her, iglets can't go very long without some kind of intake. Puree food and a small amount of Vitamins would be a great start. Just watch out for over dosing a sick iguana, sometimes when this happens it sends the iguana into system shock and the body pretty much shuts down. : Hope some other people here have some more suggestions. : Again welcome to the forum and we hope you will stay here and work with the group. : HD

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