Mold on my snake...?

[ConcinusMan]

Just put a few drops of povidone iodine (same red stuff they use to clean wounds and prep for surgery) in the water, just enough to give it a little color. make sure the water temperature is close to the same temperature as the snake. Try to keep the snake's head away from the solution and try to get the body to soak in the liquid for as long as you can, up to 10 minutes. This is only necessary if there is actually broken skin or fluid-filled blisters, punctures, or other injuries and will help get rid of, or prevent infection. Not really necessary if all that's wrong is bent back scales but anyway, it can't hurt. Just don't poison the little guy. Rinse thoroughly and keep it away from his mouth and nose. If the neck is kinked it probably won't help with that. Sounds like a spinal injury. Many snakes go on to live full lives, even with kinked broken spines. If you have trouble soaking him you could probably get idodine swabs or pads and/or apply the iodine with a cotton ball, leave it on for a minute, then rinse.

If he seems fairly alert and there is tongue flicking going on, he's probably going to be fine as long as he doesn't get an infection. I've seen massive blood loss, exposed ribs, broken spines, etc. from lawn mowers and they survived.

[kibakiba]

That seems hard... some of it is really close yo her head. I'll try a q-tip.
She is pretty alert, she perks up more of I'm holding her or if there's something going on in my room. She tends to bask a lot of there's a big heat source over her and seems to sleep like that for hours. She may be more active than I notice though, because I don't want to stress her out I'll tell you how it goes tomorrow if I'm able to buy the iodine, if not I hope she's fine for a couple days (we don't have a car so we cant go places whenever)
Thanks again!

[ConcinusMan]

Your welcome and good luck. Please keep us updated.

[mustang]

keep her as a normal garter but in a more steril enviorment (paper towels, isolate from others, ect.) it might be fixed after next shed(i hope)

[kibakiba]

So when I got home my mom had "tincture iodine" on the table and said it was all she could find. Would this work the same as the other type of iodine? If not, we have a couple more days before we can get a different kind. The snake is doing fine right now, she's been laying in her paper towels and occasionally slithering around.

[Spankenstyne]

I didn't notice this question addressed yet but: please keep it separate from the rest of your collection.

[kibakiba]

Thanks, I separated her last night

Shes a little bit more active right now, shes been moving around the container nonstop.

[kibakiba]

Well, today I walked in to the room to find that the snake was twitching and rolling around in the container, so I guess it's a bit late to treat her right now. We can't find the iodine anywhere and I didn't know if the one my mom bought would work. Right now she's laying in a old box... She's still alive but I don't think she'll live much longer.

[guidofatherof5]

Very sorry to hear this news.

[Mommy2many]

Sorry to hear about your snake