There's a squishy bump on my snake!

[guidofatherof5]

You did good.

[chris-uk]

From eating live fish? Friggen nasty!!

Yep. Another reason why frozen food is better than live.

[Selkielass]

Good job!
he should heal very quickly. The couple lumps I've drained were infection/ foreign materials, but once the offending matter was removed, the nicks healed up in a matter of days.

ive got a year old puget with a similar lump, but I've been putting off surgery as his weight is low and his attitude worse.... But I can't fatten him up when all he will eat are live guppies. Argh.

[ConcinusMan]

They'll "only eat live guppies" because you keep letting them have them. You give in. Believe me, they'll eat just about anything when they're hungry enough and their "favorite" is no longer being offered! When they know they'll get their preferred food sooner or later, they'll just refuse to eat anything else!

Where there's one worm there's others. They are probably burrowing through your snakes as we speak. One adult just happened to make it to the surface is all. There's more, you can count on it. Besides the change of diet, a course of antibiotics AND antiparasitic drugs are in order or else the next one could end up in a lung, or burrowing right through a vital organ. You can bet there's more. Most worms like this don't begin to burrow out through tissue until they are mature. There's probably ones still in there maturing as we speak.

I've had people flat refuse my advice to deworm "because I don't see any symptoms". Well, after the worm matures and starts devastating organs and tissue on it's way out, it's often too late. This could be the first of multiple worms or there may already be mature ones burrowed into organs and tissue without any outward signs as of yet. One thing's for sure, it only takes one of these to devastate their immune system causing secondary infections, and/or kill them by getting into the lung or by internal bleeding/organ damage. Simply removing this one worm and changing the diet does very little to help if there's more of them and it's a pretty safe bet there is.