Please Help! Shed stuck on head!

Leave the snake alone until next shed cycle and increase the humidity.

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When mine have a bad shed I use a wet towel after I have soaked in tepid water for an hour and it comes right off. I wouldn't mess with the eye cap, it will come off in the next shed. After a couple bad sheds I started putting my BPs in a big plastic tub with small airholes and a huge thing of water and set it next to a heat lamp. It provides a ton of humidity and I have not had a bad shed in a long time. I put them in when they come out of blue and they usually shed in a couple days in the tub.

I second the wet pillow case, I don't leave mine in over night. I will soak them in a tub for a bit, then put it in the wet pillow case. I will hold them in it to incourage movement. The friction of the wet case being against them has worked both times I've needed to do this.

Just be sure when using Hand Towels or Pillow Cases, that they are not washed in Detergent, I most times will buy New stuff for my snakes and just wash in vinegar then dry with no dryer sheets

When I want to peel a stuck shed off of a snake's head, I start at the lips. That's where they start, after all. I soak them for a few minutes in the bathtub as usual, and then I rub at the front of the upper lip, at the edge of the scales just under the heat pits. It's kind of an upward flicking motion. Usually the skin starts to roll away upward from the edge of the month, and then you can grab it and start gently tugging it off of the heat pits and over the nose.

Whatever you do, DO NOT rub at the eyes. If you can start the shed further down and it pulls the eyecaps off with the rest of the top of the head, that's fine. But don't sit there rubbing at the eyes. You can blind the snake by putting pressure on the eyes. And sometimes the eyecap is already gone, and you don't realize it.

I don't do chins. The stretchy scales under the chin make it too hard. It'll tend to loosen up during feeding, and it's really completely harmless.

Honestly, I don't think there's any harm leaving it until the next shed. That's good advice. I find snakes that have a bit of stuck shed often have better sheds the next time. Just watch for it and make sure there's plenty of humidity to help the next one along.

Here's Melvin, starting his shed by peeling his own lips. If you really want to make another attempt, you basically want to duplicate this:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-K...lvin_shed1.JPG

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-T...lvin_shed2.JPG

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Z...lvin_shed3.JPG

Tjank you all for the wonderful tips!! I just checked her and she has a little bit of skin peeling up at the nose. So I think I'll see if it comes off on it's own, if not I will try soaking one more time. If that doesn't work I will leave her alone.

I would say you've soaked her quite enough. Leave her alone. Get the humidity up, and let her get it off on her own.

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Originally Posted by Slim

I would say you've soaked her quite enough. Leave her alone. Get the humidity up, and let her get it off on her own.

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I was about to post I was going to leave her alone. I don't want to stress her out by doing it again. She seems to be slowly getting it off on her own. Again thank you all for the helpful responses :)

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Originally Posted by LuLu's Mommy

I was about to post I was going to leave her alone. I don't want to stress her out by doing it again. She seems to be slowly getting it off on her own. Again thank you all for the helpful responses :)

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That is good news!