BREAKING Carapace TURTLE I will talk about the injury of my turtle shell in the hope that someone like me, have a turtle which unfortunately is awkwardly and broke the shell knows how to behave .
introduce the topic does not feel bound without the onset with a marked note controversy. Faced with a severe lesion of the turtle's shell, the first problem that arises is to find a veterinarian who is able to deal properly with the reptile. This I say fortunately was able to search the Internet, which allowed me to find a perfectly prepared on the subject, but certainly unfair both professionally and personally. That do? There is a great choice, also because the animal is suffering, probably in mortal danger and there is not much time to waste. You have to accept even if you feel that arouses the veterinarian is bad and you would be more than the desire to entrust to her care of your turtle carapace that covers that smash the melon to see if it has in the brain, or has forgotten faces up book. The first approach of the professional is not because of the state of health of the turtle, but only on the monetization that would have involved a visit dell'animaletto. Ben € 270.00 or something more. I should point out that a turtle on the coast of € 100.00 and I would come perhaps much more comfortable break on my head, in a desperate attempt to euthanasia, and run to buy a new one. My turtle share my garden with me for well over 35 years since a young medical student, in the summer and warm I went there to study anatomy, medical pathology ect ect. Might even take me to the degree ........ The first consideration is: what is my profession as a doctor, who took six years of his life in order to graduate in medicine and surgery, and five others to specialize in orthopedics and traumatology, and two others to specialize in pathology at the University of Montpellier Surgical de la main et du membre superieur? My bill for a visit is not even half that required of me to visit the turtle! Specified the cost of the visit and discussed the turtle I propose solutions. Let it heal so do not talk even if I had not accepted the 2nd treatment (the surgery) would have deleted me. So here I propose that as a good cash in the two surgical solutions. The first is a simple curettage (practically clean under the shell and leave it) at a cost of no less than € 400.00 or so, the second addition to the osteosynthesis curettage (repair of the shell) to € 600.00 well. In the meantime I set an antibiotic and rehydration (Teach to the injections intramuscularly and subcutaneously) to prepare the tarte intervention. Here later to tell the truth set before you an invoice and budget testimony to what was said. After that I will talk about the experience, thanks to the veterinarian to treat a turtle in the proper order in which the shell was Rorro.
The first thing to do if a turtle carapace is broken is to take it, put it in a bowl with hot water / warm, brush and wash them very carefully Betadine shell, to remove all the earth and other impurities that may contain infectious material and would not allow a recovery of the turtle. Then you take a siringone from 100cc it is filled with saline solution and soap, quaternary ammonium (Savlon or similar) if you do not find it's good enough Betadine. It breaks the needle at its base so that the jet exit solution has a good pressure and "shoot" the liquid inside the lesion in the cranio caudal (tail head), taking care to keep the animal in a vertical position so that the physiological and impurities come out from the back of the shell. These washes should be performed daily for at least 30 days. After washing (to dry the shell) on the underside of the shell where there is a lesion of Betadine gauze and cover with a sterile gauze, and then do a wrap (with bandage) restraining. It 'obvious that if the snake was living in the open during the entire period of care must be taken at home, in a large box with a lamp on for more hours per day that can keep him warm. 
At the same time it must be established with an antibiotic Baytril 5% (50ml bottle). For my turtle that weighs 2.5 kg and 0.18 ml diluted to about 1 ml with the addition of saline. The intramuscular injection is made in the chest below the neck, using an insulin needle with indlinazione from top to bottom. The therapy involves a daily dosing for a period of 10 days. The animal, probably because of the trauma and stress, do not eat so you have to feed and hydrate with glucose and saline to be injected subcutaneously (between the neck and leg) using an insulin needle always with the same angle as before. The trauma also causes great pain to the reptile that will be administered subcutaneously also half a vial of Arnica every three days on three occasions. The vitamins in addition to the contribution of glucose and water, fornirannno good support for the healing so you have to give half a vial of EPARGRISONT pediatric team (subcutaneously) once a week for three settimane.Dopo the first 15 days of washing in medicate the animal may no longer be used Betadine gauze, but simply a sterile gauze. Check that there are no secretions at dressing changes. After 30 days you begin to thin out the washing, bringing the frequency to one every 3 / 4 days. If the gauze dressing stays clean for about forty days after trauma may be provided at the end of the shell. I used the Callosa a product based on calcium triphosphate, which adheres strongly to the shell and allows osseointegration, in theory if it works for humans as is, silence from the tissue regeneration of the carapace, replace it with this, otherwise it will remain a protective structure beneath which will be formed, however, the spontaneous repair of the shell. After a few days from the callosum, the turtle is ready to be shed in the garden.
Callosa IMPACT Skeletal KINETICS 
All this in the hope that rorrura carapace has not caused serious injury to internal organs in this case, unfortunately, the animal will survive. In my there was also a lesion of polmene that the vets would not have surgically repaired, I do not know if it is repaired spontaneously or not, however, the turtle has healed wonderfully.
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