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Old 03-09-2012, 02:24 AM
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good luck!!! hope it goes well
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Well, you are sure right ..it certainly is not shed skin. Wish I had a suggestion for you.
I do hope he bounces back to normal.

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There are several potential reasons that a frog will reguritate it's stomach.. in no specific chance of occurance they are

1) it has ingested something that disagreed with it
2) it has a severe infection (see for example the Atelopus zeteki in this thread Emergency Supportive Care
3) there is some form of mechanical injury

The frog with the everted stomach should have ideally been placed into a high humidity enviroment with a clean substrate that isn't going to result in particles sticking to the stomach. These factors can result in the stomach material swelling potentially damaging the stomach and/or making it difficult to get the stomach back into the frog properly. The instructions on the emergency supportive care give some good guidelines while you contact a vet or vets..

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Thanks Ed

so lets say the stomach does go back to normal is there are good chance the frog will live a normal life? Is there a good chance of it happening again?

I'll see if I can place him in a quarantine that is just paper towels with a few hides, after taking the pics I had put him back in his original enclosure so I didn't stress him out too much while I get a quarantine ready

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wow that stinks, hope the little bugger gets better. One of the first things I'd do, is get that frog some leaf litter and clean all the substrate off of it, Im sure its stressed out as it is with its stomach hanging out of its mouth, Im sure the substrate sticking to it is not making things any easier.
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so lets say the stomach does go back to normal is there are good chance the frog will live a normal life? Is there a good chance of it happening again?

I'll see if I can place him in a quarantine that is just paper towels with a few hides, after taking the pics I had put him back in his original enclosure so I didn't stress him out too much while I get a quarantine ready

thanks again everyone

It depends on the reason for the eversion of the stomach and whether or not there is significant damage to the tissues. I've seen many go on to be normal once the reason is resolved. Getting rapid vet care is important since the tissue is exposed and can become damaged.

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After seeing this post I looked up some information and came accross this video clip
Video: Frog spits up stomach ~ Pink Tentacle

I am not sure how common it is for this to happen but the video shows pretty good footage of the actual event. I have never run into this until I saw your post but that is really odd looking and definitely would give me the creeps to see it.
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Thanks Ed

I am wondering how much longer I should wait before euthanizing the little guy if I can't get to a vet, in my opinion there is no sure way to know if it is in pain but I can only imagine it would be very painful to throw up your stomach.
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My thought is that you should have called a vet when you first noticed it. Dr. Frye is one that I know if in MI, there are some others on this board as well. Even if you get an answer today you prob won't get meds until Monday which may be too late, maybe you can get them to overnight meds and get them tomorrow, or maybe they can call a local vet for you... I think you should act quickly it looks pretty serious to me...good luck

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I finally got a hold of my local exotic vet and she studied frogs in college and has seen this before and says she may be able to help so I'm going to see her as soon as possible
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