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Corn Snake Wound Care Plan

THANK YOU. (Bad things can happen. Best to be prepared.) The pictures help a lot.
 
Thanks for sharing!
Would of never thought of honey!
I've had a few rescue snakes with wounds similar to that one over the years with one being a 8 ft Boa. It had 3 large wounds like that. Across the street from my pet store was a naturopathic doctor who talked me into buying colloidal silver cream. I figured I was just sold some "snake oil". When the boa came in I figured I'd try it out on the wounds and was amazed how fast they healed ! Truly a "snake oil" that worked!
 
Thanks for sharing your experience with us! That seemed like a quick recovery for a reptile. You have to post update pics.

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Wow! Thanks for sharing this :) My bloodred ended up with an abscess somehow so I ended up doing antibiotic injections with betadine baths for her...she healed up nicely and has a scar, but it was nothing like this...impressive (and sad!)
 
If this snake is still in the healing process (I didn't see a date anywhere so I apologize if I missed it) and you are still involved in that, I would love to see more updates on this and pictures!
This is super interesting, if a little upsetting at the start.
I am curious as to how he even managed a wound that bad. The things pets manage to do to themselves sometimes...

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The snake is back with my friend, but I will be able to get update pics when the scabbing is fully healed. I gave him back the snake since the bottom layers of skin had formed
The scab that's left is just the outer layer.

Nothing to get upset about, the snake escaped its tub like a herpy Houdini. Happens to the best of us. We don't know how the skin was removed. The snake was missing for 5 days. We are assuming that he was moving under something that fell on him and when he jerked away, it took some skin. There are no teeth marks so it couldn't have been another animal. It's not a cut so it couldn't have been a fan. He never found the skin so it must have happened outside. Good thing it came back in the inside. The snake is back to his old self, but my fiend has added clips to the rack so he doesn't get out again.

I'm sure the silver cream would have worked too. I decided to use honey because it's the least dangerous cream substance for them to ingest if they start flagging their tougne all over it. The main point of a cream or honey is to create a barrier between the freshly washed wound and outside bacteria. However, honey also has the extra benefit of all the good bacteria in it to help even more.
 
SuperScalesReptiles said:
Recently a friend of mine asked me to rescue an injured corn snake of his rather than euthanize him. It went so well we decided to write up my process and share it. I hope it can help someone else with their injured herp friend.
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I am amazed beyond words that someone (ANYONE!) would be able to save the cornsnake I saw in those pix and in the description that was written. If that happened to any of my little sneaky ones (I also have had escapees but either found them soon after or never found them at all!), I would probably have reacted as opposed to have responded as did the owner of that corn in those pictures. I most likely would have had it euthanized as quickly and as painlessly as possible, since I doubt I could have foreseen an outcome that would be worth the suffering necessary to overcome those particular wounds.

In the hopes that this corn DIDN'T suffer tremendously, I take my hat off to you SuperScalesReptiles for going ABOVE & BEYOND the call of duty!! :bowdown:
 
Here's another update pic of the corn snake (scabbing healed with fresh, thin skin) There's still some progress to be made, but this wound is closed! :)

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What could anyone actually SAY to this outcome (so far, anyway)?


:bowdown::bowdown::bowdown:


What an awesome thing to have done for a corn snake. I have to hope that it would agree to that if it could talk, but doubt even I could have puuled something like that off.

WAY TO GO!!! :p
 
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