OMG.....my worst fear has come to pass

I'm going upstairs and find a tub to sterilize for her, some spare heat cord and put her in the living room since it's the 'most distance' room in the house and then put her old tub in the shower with disinfectant.


Thanks to everyone!

Be back shortly.

**hugs** :petting:

You seemed like you could use a hug. I'm really sorry for your loss, and We're all rooting for your girl. :) I know how scary sick snakes are! I'm dealing with one, myself.

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All I can say is kick that heat up and let her immune system start working. Probably a good idea to get to a vet when you are able to. Also it sounds like your pretty stressed out right now, dont stress your snake out as well by handling and trying to constantly check it out. I would just turn up the heat, keep everything nominal, and leave her be until you can see a vet. Hope she turns out fine, which I'm sure she will, never dealt with RI before but from what I have read on here it seems pretty manageable.

Keep that humidity up! 70-75% is perfect. Alot of people think that you should lower humidity during an Ri. Not only does low humidity promote them but having inadequate humidity can lead to that junk in her lungs scarring them and doing some permentant damage. Having good humidity is going to help her hauk that yuk outta there without scarring her poor lungs. Never try to dry a snake out during an Ri.


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Just went through the same issue. Before i say this keep in mind this is what worked for my situation. I am in no way saying that you should follow what i did but this is what i did. A buddy of mine who has a 2500 gram pastel female that was breeding heavy came down with a horrible case of ri. When i mean horrible i mean death bed horrible. Not only was she gurgling and bubbling but she had blood coming out of the mouth and the whole nine yards. So he brought her to me so i could see what i could do considering he has only been keeping and breeding snakes for a couple years. First thing i did was put her in the quarantine med rack. Got her on news paper and lowered humidity and jacked the heat to 93. I then put her on a treatment of baytril. The reason i put her on baytril without taking her to the vet is because over the years i have had good success with my methods. She went on a 30 day cycle of baytril. The ri cleared up and she actually laid 8 great eggs and they are in the incubator and babies seem to be good through candleing. I dont advise working with baytril as a go to. Ive been doing this a long time and have had alot of experience with this and work very closely with my vets so im confident in myself with what i do. Again this was how i took care of it. But i will say lowering humidity and jacking the heat has always worked good for me when dealing with ri. Also i have found newspaper is the best to put them on.

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**hugs** :petting:

You seemed like you could use a hug. I'm really sorry for your loss, and We're all rooting for your girl. :) I know how scary sick snakes are! I'm dealing with one, myself.

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Thanks so much and here's a hug back for your sick baby..

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Thank you for that!!!

Vicks is no problem but where can I get eucalyptus oil??

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All I can say is kick that heat up and let her immune system start working. Probably a good idea to get to a vet when you are able to. Also it sounds like your pretty stressed out right now, dont stress your snake out as well by handling and trying to constantly check it out. I would just turn up the heat, keep everything nominal, and leave her be until you can see a vet. Hope she turns out fine, which I'm sure she will, never dealt with RI before but from what I have read on here it seems pretty manageable.

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She's in a blacked out 'sweater' tub with one end left semi-clear so I can peak in without bothering her.
[she's not a very pet-ty people person snake so I really don't handle her much..she's just not that into it]

I've been staring at everybody this morning and I'm going crazy.

Is Iggy breathing funny?
What about Leah?
OMG...Mosby has his head on top of his hide!

Etc etc etc.

I'm going to drive myself insane by nightfall.

:(

Edit:

I just checked on her and the poor thing did have a good, complete shed, bless her heart.

She doesn't seem to have the bubbles and snot right now.

I put my hand on her side and couldn't feel the horrible rumbles I did at 3am.

[I'd have to take her out and hold her to see how much/little they are, for sure and I don't want to be disturbing her right now as she just finished shedding]

I'm going to have to find eucalyptus oil ASAP.
I've only got Vicks here.

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Keep that humidity up! 70-75% is perfect. Alot of people think that you should lower humidity during an Ri. Not only does low humidity promote them but having inadequate humidity can lead to that junk in her lungs scarring them and doing some permentant damage. Having good humidity is going to help her hauk that yuk outta there without scarring her poor lungs. Never try to dry a snake out during an Ri.


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Thanks...I've got low both really humidity/really high humidity advice now....can I just split the difference?

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I know that when I had severe pneumonia in 1993, they had a nebulizer/oxygen mask thingy stuck on my face for days.

When my rats would get the ubiquitous RI that tends to kill them all eventually, I'd put them in a home made 'steam tent' with Vicks Vapo three times a day.

They all lived when by rights, they should have died.

[RIs kill rats fast]