Pogona Vitticeps

Worm infection

Many terrarium animals, both wild-caught if offspring are infected with worms. The diagnosis is made by a faeces research and very occasionally with the naked eye. If you go to the veterinarian with your lizard, please always some fresh faeces (feces), it is often a lot of information. By doing good with the food which is actually intended for the host and by the occurrence of allergic reactions (by the waste excreted by the worms) can the host called in sick/weak. In addition, a respiratory condition arise from a worm infection.

Symptoms:

No appetite, losing weight, clogging, vomiting, diarrhea and anemia. The stool can sometimes what mucous. Often the barbs also what duller in color. An animal often weaken worms and other parasites as flagellate or coccidiosis the animal. The clinical picture at worm infections is often a slow decline combined with a decreased appetite. The following symptoms could point to a worm infection. Worms or settling in the intestinal tract and lungs may be responsible for the general malaise of the host.

Cause:

In the Netherlands and Belgium plays contamination of animals in the transmission of worm eggs from animal to animal, unhygienic with the animals deal or not deal with wrong against worm infections or a large role.

Different types of worms: main groups of worms is to distinguish themselves in;

Spoelwormen: Roundworms, the eggs are usually oval with a dark core or each filled with one young worm

Roundworms (Nematoda): Roundworms are a large group of very common worms.

Tapeworms (Cestoda): Within a very short time irreversible damage to their host havoc because they pull through the body of the host. Some tapeworm species can in a certain stage of their life cycle directly under the skin of their host. They are a little lump under the skin and are therefore easily visible. Tapeworms come to reptiles, which bred and kept in captivity, rarely.

Treatment:

These are parasites that are good to fight with a ontwormingskuur, provided that the diagnosis has been made in a timely manner. For the treatment against a certain type of worm is the only important a distinction between tapeworm eggs and other eggs. Tapeworms are fought with another means than the other worm species.

Worm infections cause many deaths among the animals earlier. Especially since the worms to be noticed too late by the caretakers and the treatment came too late. Today, most bearded Dragon caregivers aware of the risk and is increasingly recommended s on time.