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RE: Water blister question

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Posted by: Kestrel at Thu Jul 8 21:37:54 2004   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Kestrel ]  
   

It may be a scale, its hard to tell from the pic, but there looks to be a tick in the center of that "blister". Ticks are fairly common on WC snakes, and can create some pretty nasty infected sores like that.. I'd poke around in that blister some to make sure thats not a tick.. If it is, some rubbing alcohol should make it let go and become more easy to remove, plus sterilize the area... If its NOT a tick, it looks more like an abcess or nastily infected sore then a water blister. Water blisters(at least in my experiance) look like pockets of water under the first layer of the scale, kind of like a blister humans get with second degree burns.. I'd get that cleaned out, and some triple antibiotic cream(not ointment) applied..
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