The effects of the injections lingered for several hours and only one oral dose of pain medication was required before the lizard was using the leg and eating well. Rodent bites from minor nips to the devastating wounds demonstrated in these two cases. It is difficult to imagine why the snakes allowed themselves to be attacked without stopping the rodents. These are questions we can't answer, but pain management should be an important part of the medical management of such cases. This case is another example of a reptile not responding to painful stimuli in a manner which we would expect, i.e., pulling away before tissue damage could occur.
Burns can be very debilitating and warrant the use of pain medication.
Not only is warmth safer for the patient but it also reduces recovery times, enhancing tissue healing and stimulating the immune system. Return to Pain and Analgesia in Herps Klingenberg, Roger. Perception of pain in reptiles . All rights reserved. No living organism is immune.