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Bill S.
at Sun Dec 21 10:03:14 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Bill S. ]
Maybe this?
Years ago I had a large female Peruvian bcc that died from a respiratory problem. In the end, I awoke one morning to banging sounds coming from my living room, where her cage was. Upon inspection I found her belly-up dead.
I took her body to a vet for a necropsy and he found a large thick plug of mucus in her glottis, blocking her airway. He said it was about the size of an adult finger and it looked like chicken fat. I suspect that the thrashing I heard was her last attempts to get a breath.
My advice is to get your snake to a vet ASAP. And, monitor the temps and humidity in the cage. In my case, I believe the problem was caused by too low humidity -- drying out her lungs and eventually creating a raw irritation that produced the mucus. BTW, a couple of weeks before she died I found a couple of bloody pieces of mucus in her water dish. I had been treating her with antibiotics but the condition was probably too far advanced.
The seizure episode you witnessed MAY have been your snake trying to clear its clogged airway -- that time successfully.
I learned a very painful lesson about monitoring humidity back then.
Good luck!
Bill
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A possibility ... - Bill S., Sun Dec 21 10:03:14 2003