Please read dont look over!!!!! I need help now!!!

[xXxFluffyEmoxXx]

Hello everyone. I just had to help hades get her shed off..we got almost everything off..all thats left is her head and a small portion of her neck. She is a problem shedder and when i saw that things were going for the worst, I soaked her and works my way down her body with my hands in a O form and i got all of it off except her head and a little bit of her neck. I don't want to force the shed to be pulled in the wrong direction, So can anyone help me? My friend just told me that she had a snake that died by the shed suffocating the snake. So what can I do before i leave out the house in an hour?

[Ben Biscy]

imo, it doesn't sound like you have a really big issue here. check your husbandry, make sure humidity is right and your hygrometer is accurate.

a couple pieces of stuck shed are not going to hurt the snake.

[Patrick Long]

This is definitely not the emergency the title eludes too.


Wet pillow case on the warm side....




LOL

[CoolioTiffany]

Take a paper towel and put it under warm water. Now take the wet paper towel and try to work off the shedding on the head from where ever the shedding is. Try lifting up the shedding on the head by stroking the paper towel backward (like how the snake normally sheds) and work your way down the head and the neck to get the shedding off. Sorry if this was kind of confusing but it worked for my BP. My Milk snake only died from suffocating because the shedding could not come off the body, so the snake didn't shed anything off so if suffocated. I tried 2 months trying to get it off but the skin would not come off.

[DrLew]

Dang - thought one of your animals got stuck down the garbage disposal......

[frankykeno]

One of the best ways to help your snake shed fully is to understand the shedding process. Have a look over this sticky....

http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=28794

Now have a look over this one for help when a shed goes wrong....

http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=74290

While it is important to help your snake get off retained shed, especially fully encircling retained shed, it is not the norm for this to be something that results in the death of the snake. Take a breath, do some reading, try some of the hints in both the stickies and the posts here and I'm sure you'll get your snake sorted out. Then address the husbandry issues that are not helping your snake be able to shed itself successfully.

[4theSNAKElady]

Wow. I've never heard of a snake dying from a stuck shed. Those must be extremes there! I usually offer my snakes a humid hide....works like a charm!