!!! NEED HELP !!!
Jaxe

!!! NEED HELP !!!

My Rainbow Boa has something with her eye and i dont know what it is I thought i was retaculated eyecap but im worried sick.
I have never seen this happen before so unfortunately I have no idea what to do. Best I can suggest is search around other reptile forums. Hope she will be ok
 
It looks a bit like a stuck shed. Sometimes the skin over the eye doesn't shed properly. If this is the problem you need to thoroughly soak the head of the snake and very carefully pull the piece of shed off.
 
If it just the shedding spectacle you can moisten it and it should come off easily. If, on the other hand, it is the entire cornea the eye will be permanently lost. I've been a reptile veterinarian for 38 years and I've never seen a cornea pulled off by the snake during a routine shed, typically it is pulled off by the owner thinking it was the shed. The everted portion is very cloudy, normally the spectacle is clear when it is shed unless there are multiple sheds stuck together. What has happened since you posted this yesterday?
 
She pulled it of and twisted her eye into her head and if it wasn't enogh she has inflammation in the eye today im goin to the vet but others i talked to don't think her eye can be saved now im just woried if she can get outta this alive i dont want to lose her because of this.
 
@laservet Soo i got the verdict.
It's not inflammation but multiple skins and possibly some muscle tissue. Soo she gave me some eye drops for her and ina week i' ll go to her for a checkup.
She said that the good thing is:She might won't be able to move or see with that one eye but she will live and that she has an unique attitude- Mia he snake she was trying to bite the vet and when the vet tried to grab her soo she could look and do the checkup she tried to crawl under my shirt. The Bad thing:If it will show after the week something is going wrong the eye may have to be surgicaly cut out.
 

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