What are the symptoms of a tortoise when it is sick

Is the turtle floating a cold gastroenteritis? Understand the symptoms of turtle illness and how to judge it, and the turtle will die less.

White eye disease. Diagnosis: In the early stage of white eye disease, the eye produces a small amount of discharge, inflammation, congestion, and swelling.

In the middle and late stages, the conjunctiva is fully infected and adhesed, the cornea is eroded, the transient membrane is severely infected, hyperemic, whitish, thickened, covering the eyeball, the eyes are closed, refusing to eat or even water, and the spirit is aggrieved.

**: 1. For mild to moderate infection, use chloramphenicol eye drops during the day once an hour, and apply erythromycin eye ointment at night. Oral azithromycin.

2. For severe infection, it is recommended to use injectable antibiotics. Topical chloramphenicol eye drops and erythromycin eye ointment.

Advice: Do not try to peel off and cut off the congested, whitish, thickened white membrane that covers the eyeball from the infection, because it is the instantaneous membrane in the turtle's eye.

If necessary (after a few days of injectable antibiotics), smooth forceps can be used to gently scrape and clip off the yellow pus or abscess that is not easy to drain on the surface of the conjunctiva and transient membrane. When cleaning the yellow pus or abscess between the instantaneous membrane and the cornea, the cleaning method of pushing, squeezing and clamping is used, and the operation must be carried out with extra care. The infection, blood-congested, whitish, and thickened transient membrane covering the eyeball, under the action of antibiotics, will slowly ** return to a normal state.

Rotten armor. Diagnosis: The dorsal or abdominal carapace of the turtle has white spots or small pinhole holes, some have slag-like substances, some of the affected areas are soft, and in severe cases, they will emit a rancid smell and will ulcerate into holes. (The rotting armor of Huang Yuan is not easy to detect in the early stage, and when there is a rancid smell, it is very serious.) )

**: 1. Mild rot (superficial rot armor).

Use a toothpick to remove floating dead nails and slag, wash and disinfect with hydrogen peroxide, and apply erythromycin eye ointment.

Dry rearing for two weeks, soak in water two to three times a day, after leaving the water, wipe the body of the turtle and turtle, wash and disinfect it with hydrogen peroxide, and apply erythromycin eye ointment.

2. Moderate to severe rot armor.

Some of the tortoise's body emits a rancid smell, and some need zero distance to smell a light rancid smell.

If there are floating dead nails and slag samples, pick them off with a toothpick or peel off the floating dead nails with a sterilized blade, clean and disinfect them with hydrogen peroxide, and apply potassium permanganate powder. If it does not have the conditions for dry raising, seal it with petroleum jelly and protect it with a band-aid.

Moderate infection: oral cefadroxil is recommended. The course of treatment is 7 to 10 days.

Severe infection: Significant rancid fishy smell or perforation, injectable antibiotics are recommended. The course of treatment is 7 to 10 days.

Advice: Don't make a big deal about the parts of the bone plate that are soft due to bacterial infection, and the brutal excavation will undoubtedly make it worse.

Tofu skin. Diagnosis: The epidermis of the turtle is white and ulcerated, and when the ulceration is severe, it is cracked.

**: After iodine is applied, apply erythromycin eye ointment. Dry rearing for two weeks, soak in water two to three times a day, after leaving the water, wipe the body of the turtle and turtle, and repeat the process. For severely diseased turtles, oral antibiotics are needed.

There are also lung diseases, colds. Tissue tumors.

<> turtles lose their appetite when they are sick, often cowering in their shells and not moving, and are very unresponsive. The dorsal and abdominal armor is soft when pinched, and the turtle shell slowly rots away, and it is sick. If you find that the turtle is often hiding in corners, its limbs are shriveled, and it is lighter and often floats on the surface, it may also indicate that the turtle is sick.

<> turtles often lose their appetite when they are sick, and they have no vitality, do not like to move, and some will have diarrhea, or rot. If it has pneumonia, it often has a dull expression and will drift on its side, so it needs to be kept warm, and amoxicillin should be mixed with water and soaked or fused. If it has a white eye, the eye cannot be opened freely, and it needs to be dried for a period of time and the eye should be treated with butomycin drops.

If it has rotten skin, it needs to be wiped with iodophor and then applied chlortetracycline.