Something is wrong with the scales on my snake

[CamStatic]

Long story short, I have a slightly difficult living-condition as of late, and most of my animals have been placed at my friend's place for the time being. (they've been staying there the last 5-6 months)
I check in on them about every week where I do cleaning and feeding and make sure everything is okay with them.

Lately I've noticed that my biggest ball python female has something strange going on with her. You know how after a shed that a few scales sometimes can be slightly "wrinkly" and "damaged"? She got 3-4 scales like that on top of her head, this is at least 2 months ago.
I didn't think much of it since it sometimes happens, and goes away after the next shed.

But then she started to go into shed quite often. And that usually is a bad sign, right.
She hasn't fed for over 6 months until lately, so my first thought is that she probably went into shedding because of the 3-4 rat-meals she had.

But then 1 week ago I noticed that the rest of her body started to get these weird scales. And I noticed that some scales looked even white, it looked JUST like someone had taken a small paint-brush with white paint on it and whiped her body with it. (small parts, hardly noticeable). I even asked my friend, cause I was so confused by the white spots, if she had been doing any paint-jobs lately and touched my snake afterwards. And no, she hadn't.

I had no time to take the snake to the vet that time, because I had to go away for 1 week due to important family matter. So when I was there I gave her a bath in a anti-bacterial soap (the kind that is also used if you need to clean a wound, it was suggested by my reptile-vet)
But tomorrow I'm picking up my snake again and taking her to the vet asap. I spoke to my friend today and she said that the scales look a tiny bit worse.

The pictures she sent me is of bad quality, so I will take some photos tomorrow when I get her home so I can show you guys.
My first thought is either scale rot or some kind of bacterial infection, though I have no idea how that happened. The cage has been kept very clean and she has fresh water and there's really nothing visible to me how a bacterial infection could have happened. And for it to be a fungal growth it must have been very humid in the cage, as far as I understand? There has been no problems with too much humidity in the cage, there has actually been a little of the opposite, since she's been struggling to get her shed off on her own.

I'm a little puzzled if it's scale rot, because the scale rot I've seen before has usually turned out to be very red and "infected", and turning the scales either moist or soft. This looks nothing like that. It really just looks like a few damaged scales and then the "white paint" on some of them. The scales are not moist or soft, they don't really feel much different at all.

As for temperatures goes, she has a heat-pad that gets close to 95F, her cage is about 4 feet long and 2 feet wide, and she has been kept on paper towels that has been changed every week. (when I'm there)
Since she hasn't eaten much until the last 2 months, there has been little fecal matter in the cage. Her water bowl is changed reguarly, and she has a few hides that I clean every now and then.


Anyone who has any idea what this is?

[PigsnPythons]

Could she be rubbing on something in her cage? For example, a hide with a rough edge.

[MarkyMcFly]

Could she be rubbing on something in her cage? For example, a hide with a rough edge.

This is what I was going to say. I have a 55 gallon long tank split in half. My Juvenile Albino in one side of that tank like to crawl over the divider (theres just the slightest gap) and it kind of messes his scales up the same way. I'm assuming it's just from squeezing through the narrow gap in between the wood and metal mesh screen top. Maybe your's is having a similar thing happen

[CamStatic]

Hm... I doubt that. I have her in a big tub, and the hideboxes I have for her are really smooth. One of them is the exo-terra big hide.

There's no mesh in the cage, just the smooth plastic surface on the sides, papertowels, a dog waterbowl (also completely smooth with no rough edges ) and then the hides... There's really nowhere I can think of right now where she could have gotten hurt from, but I'm gonna double-check that tomorrow just to be sure!