Alice, he of the 3 week slitherabout, is having shed issues.

If you do not recall, I found him with some kind of gummy substance down the entire length of his back that felt like old, dried rubber cement.

Since he was rambling through the walls/floors/who knows what else of an almost 300 year old log house, I have no idea what he could've come in contact with.

Apparently it's something he slithered under since there wasn't any on his belly.

He just went through his second shed after his great adventure and his topside skin is still not shedding properly.

His belly scales just sort of come loose and drop down as if he's wearing a crunchy tube of skin, still attached to his back.

I really have to soak him in a tub with towel and then spend an hour slowly getting him shed.

He's also radically changed color.

He went from being a totally bright yellow pastel to half yellow/half brownish-dingy where the sticky stuff was.
[he was absolutely filthy when I found him, with fuzz, lint and dirt stuck to the gummy goop]

Is there anything I can do for his skin?

Could whatever it was have "penetrated" his skin and damaged it?

Might it just go away with more 'healing sheds'?

I'm having to watch him very closely when I think he's going to shed because if I'm not here to help, he exhausts himself trying to get that stuck skin off his back while having to crawl around inside a crunchy belly-balloon.

His husbandry's good.
He's eating well.
He's hydrated and seems to have gone back to his normal, happy old "captive" self.

He's my baby boy and I really want to fix this for him, if I can.