First Aid Treatment for a Respiratory Infection If you suspect
that your snake has a respiratory infection, the first thing to
do is to raise the temperature of the environment slightly. This
will induce an immediate immune response in the snake and will
help start to fight the infection. If the snake usually is
housed in a busy part of the house, move it to somewhere quieter
and if it usually lives with others, isolate it in its own
environment. Give it plenty of warm, dry bedding and monitor it
carefully. A good rule of thumb is to treat a snake with a
respiratory infection as you would treat yourself; make it warm,
quiet and comfortable. When to call in the Vet to a Respiratory
Infection in a Snake Given the treatment outlined, most snakes
will start to show an improvement quite quickly. If it doesn’t,
then a specialist vet should be consulted and the snake will
need antibiotics. The vet will probably take swabs to make sure
what bacteria are causing the infection. While these grow in the
laboratory, the v