Quote Originally Posted by Booper View Post
Read loud and clear!

I had a look online for vetericyn, but it seems I can only get it online even from Pets at Home so I'm in the same boat as the Betadine. It's 6pm here now so everywhere is closed, but tommorow I will have a look around and see what I can find.

I've read online that saline solution can be used on snakes, so I might grab Peachy in a bit and use a syringe to flush it out.

You won't have to do a super thorough scrubbing kind of cleaning at this point. That is only beneficial when the wound is fresh, or infected.

If the wound is healing nicely, you don't want to irritate the tissue. At this point you just want to make sure you keep it clean. Since snakes sometimes tend to lay in their mess, or it soaks the surrounding paper towels, you want to clean it when needed.

Since the injury happened a while ago, bacteria either entered deeper tissues, or it didn't. My biggest concern would be that the injury might possibly have been deep enough to let bacteria enter into deeper tissue or the blood stream. In that case, antibiotics should have been given as a preventative, so the snake doesn't get infection or worse case possible, septicemia.

I'm hesitant to even mention this, because I don't want to freak you out, and its not like you can do something "right this second", not even call the vet.

Most likely this has not happened, or she would begin to decline. I'm only mentioning this because "IF" you call the vet back, you might want to ask about this. He is the one that saw the wound up close, so he should have a better idea about all this.

So do not worry so much at this point, just write down everything you can think of that you may want to bring up to the vet, before you call I tend to forget half of what I was going to ask, by the time I'm talking to a doctor/vet.