I recently had a Ball Python with an RI and I gave her two 10 minute Eucalyptus Oil/Vicks vapor chamber treatments to help ease her symptoms until I could get her to the vet and I also bumped her temperatures up a couple degrees. She stopped wheezing immediately after the first treatment and stopped gaping after the second treatment. When I took her to the vet a couple days after the second vapor treatment she did still have bubbles in her throat, so the vet prescribed 7 rounds of vitamin/Gentocin injections. I just finished giving her the last shot and she seems to be fine other than she needs to start eating again and putting some weight back on...

Many here at the forum advised against the Eucalyptus oil/Vicks treatments and some even made jokes about it, but it definitely took the symptoms away and the snake is fine. So, there is something to be said for that... I am getting a Repti-fogger and F10 to have on hand for treating RIs in the future, though...