cat001
06-11-16, 04:27 PM
JD my corn snake went to the vets nearly a month ago over suspected egg binding as she had an unusual lump for a while, noticed after she had laid a clutch. After other treatments seemed to fail to help we opted for surgery, turned out she had a large tumour growing on her kidney!
She recovered very well from the operation but apparently the tumour had been causing a lot of her poo to be retained. I started allowing her to move around a lot more to work it all down and out but that wasn't the last of her issues. For about a week or so she's been passing the odd egg but the narrowing at the surgical site seems to be causing issues in regards to her passing the eggs.
I've been e-mailing the vet about JD's progress all the while and we've been discussing how to best approach her problem...currently I've got her back in her big enclosure (she was in a smaller quarantine enclosure as it's easier to keep sterile to prevent infection at the site of surgery). In this enclosure I've upped the temperatures using the heat lamp to encourage healing and nesting behaviour. Her water dish has been replaced with something large enough for her to soak in if she wishes to, she's staying in her moist hide at the moment and is receiving daily baths (critical care is now being added to the bath water as she is not eating). Her second bath (to remove the critical care residue) has F10 added to it to keep the surgical area clean.
She's still got another dozen or so eggs to pass so i've got another vet visit booked to assess the likelihood of her being able to pass the rest of the eggs considering the trouble she's had with passing 5 of them, and if there's any other treatments we could try. I think oxytocin would have little effect as it's an obstruction and would be concerned about her forcing the eggs through it incase she causes herself some damage. There's also the option of deflating some of the eggs but the contents have congealed in some of the eggs she has produced. I'm not sure if her stitches could perhaps be removed or if that's too soon, or maybe the eggs manipulated into a more appropriate position for her to pass. We'll see on Monday.
She recovered very well from the operation but apparently the tumour had been causing a lot of her poo to be retained. I started allowing her to move around a lot more to work it all down and out but that wasn't the last of her issues. For about a week or so she's been passing the odd egg but the narrowing at the surgical site seems to be causing issues in regards to her passing the eggs.
I've been e-mailing the vet about JD's progress all the while and we've been discussing how to best approach her problem...currently I've got her back in her big enclosure (she was in a smaller quarantine enclosure as it's easier to keep sterile to prevent infection at the site of surgery). In this enclosure I've upped the temperatures using the heat lamp to encourage healing and nesting behaviour. Her water dish has been replaced with something large enough for her to soak in if she wishes to, she's staying in her moist hide at the moment and is receiving daily baths (critical care is now being added to the bath water as she is not eating). Her second bath (to remove the critical care residue) has F10 added to it to keep the surgical area clean.
She's still got another dozen or so eggs to pass so i've got another vet visit booked to assess the likelihood of her being able to pass the rest of the eggs considering the trouble she's had with passing 5 of them, and if there's any other treatments we could try. I think oxytocin would have little effect as it's an obstruction and would be concerned about her forcing the eggs through it incase she causes herself some damage. There's also the option of deflating some of the eggs but the contents have congealed in some of the eggs she has produced. I'm not sure if her stitches could perhaps be removed or if that's too soon, or maybe the eggs manipulated into a more appropriate position for her to pass. We'll see on Monday.