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I have a baby columbian that has a medical issue that's got myself and the 2 reptile vets in the area confused.
She has a small amount of tissue protruding from her vent- it is not a prolapse. The tissue is pink and viable, but swollen and protruding slightly (only a couple centimeters) fron her vent.
The first vet gave me a topical anti-inflammatory liquid, to be mixed with a powdered antibiotic and applied to the affected tissue twice daily for 10-14 days. After doing a swab of the tissue, and examining it under the microscope, he believed the tissue had been irritated by something and was slightly infected. The tissue shrunk a little, but did not recede.
The second vet I took her to initially said the same thing, but when I explained that we'd already been through that, he suggested shrinking the tissue and trying to "force" it back in with a suture to hold the vent closed. This resulted in nothing but tremendous agitation on her part and me getting bit severla times for even trying to examine the area. When the suture was removed, the tissue still protruded.
The odd thing, is that it doesn't seem painful to her, she has no problem with me poking at it or touching it (except for the suture experience) and she eats and defecates/passes uraates normally.
Does anyone have any idea what this could be? The vets in my area are out of ideas and this has been going on for a month now.
I'm putting a call in to the vet school a couple hours away tomorrow to see if they'd be of any more help, but it sounds like nobody knows what this is. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

im no expet and it is hard to tell without pics, but is it possible that the "She" is actually a "He" and one of the hemipenes for some reason is unable to retract? ive heard of this happening before but im not sure if this applies in your case or not. only other course of action i could recommend would be to have the snake anestethized (sp?)and then examine him or do an xray or whatever it is they do to reveal muscle tissue.
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No, it's definitely not a hemipene, and the snake is definitely female.
The last vet to look at her suggested (as a last resort) surgically removing the tissue even though it is still viable, since we have not been able to get it to retract.
I'd like to avoid that option if at all possible.

well then if it isnt bothering her, then dont let it bother you. you might just have to learn to live with it if you dont want to get it removed. hopefully someone else has more info.
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1.1.0 Colombian Redtail Boas
2.1.0 Sumatran Blood Pythons
1.0 Black Blood Python
1.0 Dumeril's Boa
0.1 Coastal Carpet Python
0.1 Jungle Carpet Python