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Gout
Gout appears to occur more and more often. Gout is a painful inflammation. In gout put crystallized urate (urate = the salt content in uric acid) is stuck in a joint, the kidneys or intestines.
Symptoms:
The crystallization of uric acid in a joint often leads to a rapidly emerging severe inflammatory reaction with swelling and pain.
Cause:
In bearded Dragons is gout mainly due to too little drinking. Bearded dragons can still sometimes refuse to get out of a container for water to drink, they prefer to lick the drops of water off the syringe.
Treatment:
Go to the vet at the presumption of gout. Usually, this the bearded Dragon anti-inflammatories and painkillers. When the inflammation come too often and too intense for the bearded Dragon, it is often better to sleep.