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UTH Burn Treatment in Snakes

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LokisKafka

Okay so despite my best efforts to use a uth safely my older bp has suffered some mild to moderate burns on his belly. I think it would have been far worse if I didnt check the snakes so often. The crazy thing is the uth has been under his tank, wrapped in a thick dish towel and on a timer for two months. The burn however was sudden. I can only assume that it malfunctioned and over heated despite the timer. I feel terrible about this happening. I have ordered heat cable and I am waiting on it to ship. It was truly a get him by solution but the burn did happen. So my question is what do I need to do to treat it. I have soaked him in betadine and water bath and cleaned his tank and put soft (carefresh) substrate. I would do paper towels or newsprint but he will squish it all up, he doesnt like it much and he is a pretty big guy. Normally he lives on aspen but i dont see it being soft enough to promote healing. Is there anything additional I can use to aid his healing. I have silver sulfadiazine 1% on hand but I dont know about its use in snakes and have read that honey works better than it but agian not sure of the veternary application.

Monty Sr.'s burn


Points:	100
Topics:	Skin , Caging , Medications
Tags:	Burn, Injury, UTH
Species:	Pythons > Pythons > Python regius
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Accepted Answer

2/10/2009 9:34:35 AM

Jeffriey

Here's a couple of good sites Jenn to refer to Home emergency treatments

http://www.merckvetmanual.org/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/171414.htm

www.redtailboas.com/at_home/at_home.html

Assisted Answer

2/10/2009 9:40:15 AM

Jeffriey

After looking at the pic more closely it actually looks more like a touch of scale rot which the hot UTH can still be a contributing factor that caused this. Treat it the same way in either case.

http://www.merckvetmanual.org/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/171407.htm

Member Comment

2/10/2009 9:44:56 AM

Jeffriey

Oh yeah sorry for the quick reference responses Jenn I was just heading out to work. I'll call you later to see how he is.

Assisted Answer

2/10/2009 12:54:52 PM

Kaiyudsai

Silver sulfadiene is excellent.... you doing the exact treatment I do.... betadine soak once every other day is perfect

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2/10/2009 2:11:37 PM

REPTILEN1NJA

i wont use uths without na tstat now i got almost all my enclosure on tstats except for my lizards

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2/10/2009 2:21:25 PM

Kaiyudsai

Honey???? I wouldn't use honey on it... it's just going to trap dirt in the wound... these burns look rather benign and should come out with the next shed... just keep it clean and change the cage bedding everytime you soak it

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2/10/2009 2:28:57 PM

Jeffriey

I agree with everything Kai said...

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2/10/2009 3:22:33 PM

magsj387

I'd imagine some Triple anti biotic on it would help from it getting irritated or worse, especially if your gonna put him on a cloth or paper towels for the time being...

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2/10/2009 4:53:48 PM

Matts Animals

Never had a snake burned but ive had bad welding burn and that Silver sulfadiene worked wonders on me, kills the pain in about a minutes and last for quite a while.

at the very least i'd use neosporn (always gotta say, just the orginal, no pain killer or any extras) just to help from getting infected

Assisted Answer

2/10/2009 5:52:25 PM

kaorte

Neosporin, without the pain killer.

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2/11/2009 12:00:01 AM

Kaiyudsai

Yeah if you happen to have some painkillers laying around take them yourself.... you deserve it... :)

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2/11/2009 6:30:38 PM

critterking1987

this is the same proublem im having right now i have a snake that got burned about a month ago and its not healing right so im off to the vet in a couple of days

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2/13/2009 7:28:36 PM

redhood23

best thing for any burn is silver sulfadiene. keep it covered for the first few days. after that let it get some air, but keep putting it on until it is totally healed

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1/14/2011 7:40:08 AM

abi21491

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