Worms in Vomit

[Miles]

Appointment with Vet booked 9am

Clearly he has worms as these were vomited up this morning. He doesn’t seem affected at all. Eating normally and plodding around and being destructive as always.

What worms are these?
Anything I can do until 9am tomo?
How worried should I be?

Many thanks
Miles

 

[ZEROPILOT]

http://startortoises.net/fecal-exams.html
I'd say round worm. But I am no vet. And discovering the type of parasite, coupled with the weight of your tortoise will decide the treatment type and dosage.
I have a microscope and I have begun to recently self diagnose. With aid from my very good reptile specialist vet.

 

[Miles]

Worming started. Vet administered via a tube directly into stomach. Have to redo in 2 weeks and then send fecal sample 10 days after that.

She wasn’t too concerned as he/she was very active and alert and still eating.

Told me to change substrate to newspaper and change everyday. “Sprout” currently hates this and is trying to dig through it.

QQ: could I shred this rather that laying flat?? Or was I suppose to do that??

 

[Yvonne G]

Newspaper is an easy-to-clean substrate when you're dealing with wormy poop. I would keep it in one piece, laying flat.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

The poop contains eggs that can live through the treatment and you don't want to re introduce them to your tortoise. Clean bedding is important.
The second treatment is to kill any last worms that have hatched as eggs left inside the tortoise that were eggs not killed inside in the first dosage.
Many tortoises have SOME worms. They aren't really an issue unless something happens that allows them to get numerous.
To see eggs in the poop is not always reason to panic. But seeing live worms in poop or in vomit is a red flag.