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Corn snake rectal prolapse...help!

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Snakles

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I have a 6-7 month old bloodred corn snake. I have never had any problems with him, he has always been healthy. But i took him out for feeding after not handling him for about 4-5 days and noticed he had a prolapse :(. There was some dried up substrate/poop stuck around his vent and under the flap. I was able to get that off and have cleaned it out frequently since i noticed it yesterday and applied a sugar paste. I also replaced his substrate with paper towel so it won't get dirty and cleaned everything in his terrarium. It still hasn't gone back in and i haven't been able to push it back in. I live in a small northern town and we do not have an exotic veterinarian. Please help!
 
See if you can find a bird vet to help you. A vet needs to see if it is viable, and if so, will need to replace it and suture it.
 
Keep the paper towels lightly damp. Any dried tissue will have to be surgically removed. If it goes in on its own, make the first offered meals very small. If it doesn't retract on its own and there is no dead tissue, the vet can do what is called a purse string suture, to keep it inside until healed. If there is dead tissue, it becomes much, much more complicated. Are you certain it isn't a hemipenes?
 
Unfortunately no bird vets or anyone else who would take snakes :/ i am very certain it is not hemipenes
 
Nothing has really changed yet though i'm now certain it's rectal - there is white stuff forming on it and i've been cleaning it off. Today when i cleaned the biggest portion off he pooped a lot (it was plugging it). Still don't know what to do for him :/ thinking of getting in touch with an exotic vet to see if one can help me over the phone
 
Terrible news! Start calling vets. It needs to see one. Soon. I wish you luck.
 
Very unfortunate :(. Possible to post a picture of the stuff? I guess you can send the picture from your iphone to your email and from your email to any free online pic hosting website.
 
I'm not too sure what's happening now..i think maybe it's drying up? Looks darker and smaller and there's white stuff caked on all around it that smells really bad. I can't even grt it off during his baths!
 
My vet takes exotics. I am good friends with one of the techs. I will call her and ask if she knows of any way we may be able to get a vet to work with you. I am not sure if it would be possible with liability, etc. but I am willing to give it a shot.
 
Snakles said:
As i said various times previously, there is no vet that takes snakes within 12 hours of where i live
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Sorry, I saw no post here that you didn't have a vet that takes snakes within 12 hours of you, just that none near you took snakes.

Did they all say they didn't know of ANY vet that took snakes?

I have been doing some research for you, here is what I found. What these are are online experts that you can ask questions to, they may or may not be able to help you, but it is better than nothing.

http://www.allexperts.com/browse.cgi?catLvl=3&catID=704

http://www.justanswer.com/sip/veter...e&pmt=b&plc=&gclid=COOXsMfqu70CFVBgfgod-FEACw

Toward the middle is a place you can ask a question.
http://www.petmd.com/reptile/emergency

https://www.accuexperts.com/ask-a-v...rk=g&ttm_n=1&gclid=COiY8LLru70CFVKIfgodqRwA-A

http://www.vetlive.com/
 
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