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Joined: Dec 11, 2004 Posts: 216 Location: BC, Canada
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 11:55 pm Post subject: Herp First Aid Kit/Emergency Kit
As my collection keeps growing, sometimes uncontrollably at times I think its time to put together a good herp first aid kit. I already have a small emergency kit with dechlorinated water, heat pads, ect but I want to put more of a first aid kit together. Right now all I really have for them if something were to happen are polysporin and cuetips, electrolyte supplement, and shed-aid.
Can anyone suggest any items I should keep on hand in case of an emergency/accident (besides my herp vets number lol). Any suggestions would be appreciated. I have just been feeling very unprepared lately. _________________ Charlene
Joined: Nov 06, 2004 Posts: 972269 Location: Central Maine
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:33 am Post subject: Great idea, Great post!
I keep some triple antibiotic (without pain relief or other medications), some sterile gauze, some Q-tips, and we have dechlorinated water. It's not setup as a kit, but it's all in the bathroom medicine cabinet. A herp med kit is a great idea for emergency care. Let's see if we can compile some good ideas on this subject.
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:46 am Post subject: great idea!
Charlene, I really like this idea for a reptile first aid kit. It would definitely be very handy, especially if people were traveling, and such where they couldnt get to a vet or anything like that for a while. NOt too sure what I'd put in it, lol so I can't really contribute to this much, but I'd love to hear peoples ideas. ~Christie
Let's see, mine has nitrile gloves (I hate latex or any of the others); pure alcohol; a pinkie press; dosing needles; a stomach tube; enema bottle with different sized tips;scalpel with blades #10,#15 and I think #18; dermalene, cat gut and silk suture threads of various thicknesses; rounded and triangulated needles; various hemostats and forceps, blunt and sharp scissors, dental picks and blunt probes; Demerol, benzocaine, MS-222, Baytril, Amykacin, penicillin, Hepalean, Ketalean, Marcaine, Somnotol, PeriAcryl, Betadine, potassium permanganate, Polysporin ointment and cream, Pentamycetin, lactated Ringer's solution, Saline;Vet-wrap; Gel foam; gauze (both normal and tubular); dental dam; portable cauterizer; 1cc, 3cc and 5cc syringes; hypodermic needles of various gauges; Vaseline; sexing probes; plastic metric ruler; 5g and 10g Pesola scales; an ultrasonic fogger; a couple angiocatheters; Gatorade; 2m of surgical tubing; infrared thermometer; cotton (raw and pelleted); matches; some pipe clamps; Crazy Glue; Write-in-the-rain notepad; calculator; small "flashlight"; stethoscope; and a hammer.
hey tupinambis, want to make another one of those and send it my way? lol that is pretty impressive, and it's just for your lizards or everything in general?
Joined: Dec 11, 2004 Posts: 216 Location: BC, Canada
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:04 pm Post subject:
Wow. I don't think i'd be able to get all those antibiotics though, nor would I trust myself to administer them properly lol. Thank you for such a detailed response.
As for making kits and shipping them out, I'm afraid that's not going to happen. Whereas some of that stuff is easy to get ahold of and rather cheap, some of it isn't. Such as the pinkie press.
There really isn't much in there in the way of antibiotics - Amykacin, penicillin, Baytril, and Polysporin. A number of those others are painkillers, muscle relaxants, tissue glues, etc.
It's really only for my herps. As for getting some of it, there's actually something of a trick to getting it. A lot of medicines such as antibiotics are treated like gold by urban vets - they make their money by getting you to come into their facility and paying them a fee just for looking at your animal, so they aren't about to hand out medicines. However, often if you go out to rural vets that are more prone to dealing with ranchers, horse owners, etc., they are more used to people giving their own animals shots and such, and are often a lot easier to get certain medicines from. Plus, I have the benefit of being a researcher so I can just call up animal care and say I need such-n-such . Admittedly, I haven't paid for a lot of the stuff in my kit myself
As for playing doctor, well Rick, when you have crocs roaming freely around your house, it doesn't give you many opportunities to play THAT kind of doctor although plenty of opportunities to play the real kind
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~Christie
lol that is pretty impressive, and it's just for your lizards or everything in general?
although plenty of opportunities to play the real kind 
