It's really touchy to give that sort of medical advice over an Internet forum. The problem is that if she's already suffered a prolapse from straining, she may be apt to prolapse again.

That said, this is about all I could recommend....

Daily warm water (just lukewarm) baths of 15-20 minutes to stimulate a BM. I would make sure the basking temp is about 115 to facilitate proper metabolism and peristalsis of the intestinal tract. Also, some free roaming time and exercise will help move things along.

You don't want to give a strong laxative but provide something that would work naturally. If she will eat ground turkey, then I would sprinkle one teaspoon of plain metamucil fiber on her daily feeding portion. Also give her cod liver oil mixed in with the ground turkey at a ratio of one tablespoon to one pound of meat. Make sure she gets calcium without phosphorous or D3 with this diet. The cod liver oil already contains plenty of Vit D and you don't want to overdo it.

You never know what they will pass without surgery. It could be a hairball or feathers mixed with all sorts of things. I have a tegu that eats all sorts of weird things. If I don't keep her fiber high then she will eat cypress mulch and she does like to get into the back yard and eat silver dollar sized rocks. She really had me worried time, but passed a rather large stone within a few days.

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