Ball python bit by Medium Rat, any advice?

Betadyne is the way I'd go. If you use neo use it one and not repeatedly. She will heal up just fine.


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My only issue is she ate two medium rats last night, I don't normally feed that heavy but this is a fairly skinny gal. I'm trying to get her up to size for late season breeding. So I haven't gotten her out yet to look her over for any bite marks. I know she was bit because she flinched several times while it looked like the rat was biting. So I will have to wait till tommorow.

It may have just been nibbling and didn't even penetrate the scales. Rats often do this just testing what they can get away with. Letting the possible threat know that they are armed with teeth and they will use them if needed.

They often don't clamp down and do real damage unless the strike and constrict has already happened and the rats head is free to turn and bite before it dies. Or if a rat is left unattended in with a snake it can start biting later on.

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Originally Posted by ballpythonluvr

Do not use hydrogen peroxide on the wound. This effects the tissues ability to heal. What you want to use is betadyne. You can find it at your pharmacy.

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This is true.

I'm intentionally keeping an deep wound on my Dobe's elbow open and -draining- by applying hydrogen peroxide liberally every day.

The strange little 'callous' he's had for a while turned out to be a deep tissue abscess [from what, I don't know] and it's imperative that I keep it draining long enough to give the Animax I'm squirting up inside there time enough to knock out the infection.

Without the peroxide it would've scabbed over and closed in less than a day, sealing in any residual infection.

Go with the Betadine.

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