Scale rot?

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Originally Posted by Cheirogaleidae

She was being kept on damp aspen and with an uncontrolled UTH. Mostly I'd like to know which it is -- burn, scale rot, or both. She's on dry newspaper now being treated with Betadine and Neosporin.

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Diluted Betadine and Neosporin without the painkiller I hope.

Make sure you tell your friend not to put the neo on every day and to be sure to pretty much wipe it off so it is not caked on. Oil based anything is not the best treatment for snakes unless it's being used on stuck eyecaps. In fact, it probably isn't even needed beyond one or two applications as long as the paper is kept dry and clean. No misting or spraying. To keep humidity up just use a large water bowl placed over the UTH and cover the top of the enclosure if it's kept in a tank.

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Originally Posted by Daybreaker

Diluted Betadine and Neosporin without the painkiller I hope.

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Yes and yes. Thanks to everyone for the advice!

Ok, so she's now going through a very difficult shed. Can humidity be upped, or can she soak or get the wet towel trick? Pictures from yesterday afternoon are here: http://s1120.photobucket.com/albums/...t%20Continued/
Her belly is dyed from the betadine, but I think she's going to need to see a vet....

Definitely raise the humidity so she can shed. That should have been done a couple days after her eyes went cloudy so she could get that skin off easily.

How often were you guys doing these soaks and treatments? It almost looks like a little too much. Like I said earlier, it was so little damage that it would have quickly fixed itself if it had been left alone after only a couple treatments. Then a clean enclosure with an ambient humidity of about 50%. paper towels or newspaper.

I agree, scale rot or a burn. It sounds like you have received plenty of advise to get this fixed, good luck and make sure everything gets fixed. If it gets bad enough, bps can easily die from infections.

Try not to use too much betadine, if she's stained, it may be a little much. It can actually be detrimental to healing if in excess, a lot of the vet community has gone completely away from using it because of this.

Treatment is good, but the 'if a little is good, a lot will be better' is not the case here. Good luck! :] I'm glad you're caring for her, and hopefully she'll clear up after her shed.

I think she was treated three times (Betadine and Neosporin).

Well make sure the ambient humidity is very high so she can get that skin off good. Then see what the belly looks like. If there is not much improvement, have your friend take her to a vet for some silver sufadiazine cream. No more soaks and no more neo or anything else oil based. At this point the only thing that should be put on her is the silver cream. It will help immensely but is only available from the Dr.

If the vet happens to be not very knowledgable about reptiles, please tell your friend to ask your vet for some of the silver cream. It's the only thing that snake needs if the belly does not look better after this shed.

It does look like early stages, though. If your friend can control the dampness of the bedding and the UTH (I would add a table-top lamp dimmer from Home Depot and put the snake on DRY paper towels for month or two), then it should mostly fix itself with the next shed.

But keep an eye on it for the next two or three sheds, definitely.