That's the best you can do for now -- newspaper and up the heat. You should see some sort of improvement after he sheds. I would probably switch out of the Cypress Mulch for all your snakes, just to play it safe. You don't want it happening again, and it's probably better to stick with what you know anyways.

I feel like the vet should have given you something better, since battling infection is your biggest concern right now. You wouldn't want the infection there to affect anywhere else in the body, and it's really easy to do in snakes. Any vet should have Chlorhexiderm Solution and SSD. Chlorhexi is much less abrasive than Peroxide, which can dry out the area if used too much, when you should probably be cleaning it a couple times a day. Chlorhexi is extremely sterile too, and used a lot to sanitize surgery instruments. Silver-Sulfadine Cream (that might be spelled wrong) is also great for reptiles, good at preventing/killing infection, and doesn't smother the wound. Make sure the wound can breathe with the amount of Neosporin/Triple-Antibiotic you are putting on it.

Did you know what the injection she gave him was?

I'm not questioning your vets practices by the way. Don't hate me I'm a vet-tech at an exotics-equipped animal hospital, and I know for damn sure that I am NO veterinarian, by farrr... I'm simply just speculating. I hope he gets better!
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• Chelsea Lynn Gardiner
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