He's CUT!!! He's CUT!!!!!!!

[knads06]

HELPPPPPPPP....................
I came home this morning to find Slim stuck to the outside of his hide on the cool side. I used a piece of tape to hold the sides together and he decided to try and get out of a lil tiny crack in the corner of it. He must of struggled all night because when i found him everything was a mess inside. So i took him out and soaked him in some warm water and attempted to peel the tape that was stuck to him off. It took a lil while but i eventually got it off. But right now he has some open cuts so im wondering what i need to put on it to make it heel. He basically pulled his skin off from struggling to get the tape off. LIke i said i soaked him for a while now im just wondering what else to do. Any info would be greatly appreciated, IVe def learned for now on no tape inside his home!!!!!!

[Kevin McRae]

On the "Pet Guys Show" they said, just to put a little bit of polisporn on the cuts.

Are the cuts closed up or do some of the cuts require stiches?

[Tigergenesis]

Never had this happen, but I've often heard people say they use Neosporin - but I've also heard to stay away from Neosporin Plus...I think because it has some kind of painkiller or something. Sorry, I can't exactly remember but hopefully someone else will jump on soon. Yeah, tape or glue should be nowhere near them. Many have learned the hard way. I hope Slim will be okay - and you too!

[Tim_Cranwill]

Keep him on clean paper towels and put polysporin on the wounds once or twice daily. Keep a close eye on him for infection.

Also, get a new enclosure. I'm sure that anything that needs to be kept together with tape is NOT sufficient for housing a snake.

[knads06]

They dont require stiches but its kind of like a open flesh wound. He just kept pulling and it opened up his skin a little bit. No blood

[knads06]

Is it ok to use neosporin on the wound?? Thats the only thing i have available right now.??

[latazyo]

polysporin and neosporin are both antibiotic ointment products made by Pfizer

neosporin is triple antibiotic ointment containing bacitracin, neomycin, and polymyxin

polysporin contains bacitracin and polymyxin

[knads06]

HOw many days should i apply the neosporin for?? And how many days should i wait to feed him again since he's injured??

[mykee]

NEVER use tape in an enclosure. Now you know why. Don't use the Polysporin paste, use the clear stuff. Every second day until it scabs, and then some.

[zero&stich]

A call to a qualified vet might not hurt eaither, providing that the vet HAS dealt with herps.

[Jeff_Favelle]

This is really odd. How many times in the last 6 months has this tape issue come up? Like 10? 20 maybe? Bizarre. I have never seen so many tape mishaps. I always thought is was RULE #1 to NEVER use tape. Maybe we should be advertising this somewhere, because clearly the message is not getting out there to prevent these kinds of things.

Poor snake.

[BoidKeeper]

What's done is done and now he knows and knows what to do. So let's not turn this into a flame fest.
Trevor

[Jeff_Favelle]

I wasn't flaming anyone, and I didn't even address that dude in any way shape or form.

Making an TRUE observation is no where near a flame. I don't see how it can be ethically right to tip-toe around an issue that seems to come up every week when clearly the info needs to be more in people's faces. So everytime someone does something wrong husbandry-wise we just say "what's done is done" and move on, all the while pet snakes are getting injured?

Maybe we should have a page with the Top 10 Rules of Snakekeeping on it, because this whole tape issue was BASIC stuff when I started out 12 years ago. I'm not blaming a soul, but it really saddens me that its still an issue over a decade later. Something went wrong.

And I'm still befuddled how this is becoming a "flame fest"? LOL.

[BoidKeeper]

It's not and my comments were in general. If you or anyone else had actually flammed this person a PM would have been sent.
Trevor

[Jeff_Favelle]

Coo.