Healing Burns or Scale Rot?

[KaijuWaifu]

A couple weeks ago my ball python, Engrid, burned herself on her heat pad by (I'm assuming,) burrowing her nose under her green reptile carpet and laying directly on the heat pad. She had swollen, fluid-filled scales. After reading a few forum posts about what vets did about the swollen scales, (they sterilized a needle and drained them) I decided to do the same (yes, I sterilized) by taking a small tiped sewing needle and draining the fluid. After baths of Betadine and Hibaclens, she was so close to being completely healed, until she slipped underneath the carpet and burned herself a second time, resulting in some bloody-looking blisters. I've recently turned off her heat pad and replaced the cool side with an overhead lamp, containing a ceramic heat coil so we don't have this issue again.

Images of her first burn and second burn are included and will be labeled.

Common questions:
The betadine and hibaclens soaks were DILUTED. Soaked for about 30 minutes every other day.
Her warm side of the tank hovers around 89-91 degrees
Her cool side is around 79-81
**I've recently kept the humidity in her tank very low, in case this is scale rot**
She has hides on both sides of the tank
She has a water basin in the middle of her tank, large enough for her to lay in
She shows no signs of stress or aggression when the area of interest is stimulated
She is eating regularly (she eats small rats bi-weekly)
She is 17 years old.

First burn:
http://imgur.com/elUuRGs
http://imgur.com/UXaXuzS

First week of healing & baths:
http://imgur.com/78e6OBK
http://imgur.com/KnywxqP

Second week of healing & baths:
http://imgur.com/NiAd1rI

***Current:
http://imgur.com/77HAG8w

The "current" image is what I'm trying to define. This area is where the bloody blisters were at, but have since dried out and left this behind, which to me, looks like scale rot.

[Dezoruba]

Her heat pad should have never been hot enough to burn her like that. Why dont you have it on a thermostat??

As for the burn, I'm not experienced enough to answer that, hope someone comes along who can.

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[JodanOrNoDan]

Read this and then read all the sticky threads for proper cage in the husbandry section. Everyone makes mistakes, but making the same mistake three times is not good. You cage setup is still not right and you are going to have another problem.

Take your snake to a vet. Maybe the hit to your wallet will convince you to correct your husbandry.

[KaijuWaifu]

Her heat pad should have never been hot enough to burn her like that. Why dont you have it on a thermostat??

As for the burn, I'm not experienced enough to answer that, hope someone comes along who can.

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The heat pad needed to be hot enough to warm her through the thick reptile carpet, I do have the heat pad on a thermostat, but I had to temp the actual carpet to make sure it was warm enough. Having a heat pad on the correct temperature would not be warm enough through the carpet.

[KaijuWaifu]

She was burned twice, not 3 times. Corrections have been made already, and her setup is fine. She will no longer be burned by the heat pad, as it is no longer set up. It has been replaced with an overhead heat lamp. All of thisnwas stated in the original post.

[JodanOrNoDan]

The heat pad needed to be hot enough to warm her through the thick reptile carpet, I do have the heat pad on a thermostat, but I had to temp the actual carpet to make sure it was warm enough. Having a heat pad on the correct temperature would not be warm enough through the carpet.

You did not read what I suggested yet I am guessing. Seriously, please read it. Your setup was not right before and it is not correct now because you do not understand the behavior of the animal.

[KaijuWaifu]

To be clear, the heat pad was not inside the cage itself. It is attached underneath the GLASS cage, which means it needs to be at a higher temp to be at the correct temperature for substrate/paper towels/anything.

[JodanOrNoDan]

She was burned twice, not 3 times. Corrections have been made already, and her setup is fine. She will no longer be burned by the heat pad, as it is no longer set up. It has been replaced with an overhead heat lamp. All of thisnwas stated in the original post.

I give up. You are the expert. I have 50 and none have ever been burned. How many do you have?

The third is for the next accident that will happen.

[KaijuWaifu]

I'm not trying to make a competition or argument out of this. Her cage setup follows the guidelines of this thread that you recommended, and the problem will not happen again, as the heat pad as been removed (I'm pretty sure I said this 3 times now.) There is absolutely no way for further injury to occur.
Her substrate has been changed to 100% aspen bedding to keep moisure low. The only problem I see in relation to your suggested post is the humidity, which I have lowered to ensure if this is scale rot, that her wounds do not become irritated with more fluid or moisure. Once I can confirm this injury, I'll adjust the humidity accordingly.

If I am blatantly missing something, by all means, call me out on it. I'm not here to have a pissing match, I'm here to help my snake. I'll take her to the vet when funds allow.

[JodanOrNoDan]

Where is the thermostat? No matter what you are heating with you need a thermostat. These snakes are stupid when it comes to heat. They will allow themselves to be burned rather than be cold. Know the correct way to take temps in the enclosure either by proper probe placement or shooting the enclosure with a heat gun. There are many threads that explain how to do this. If it is a glass enclosure pay very close attention to temps on the glass. It gets real hot. There should not be any place in the enclosure with a surface temp above 90. This includes anything the snake can reach as well as above and below the substrate.

The animal should be on paper towel as substrate until it heals. It must be changed out any time it gets dirty.