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Help, i dont know what it is, im calling the vet too. Can anyone tell me what it is and why it he is doing this. Please Help!!!

It's a prolapse. Take your dragon to the vet immediately! Keep him on papertowels to prevent any sand/particulate from coming into contact with the prolapse. You can give him a warm soak also, which may help. This is what I can remember from hearing of it in the past but I have never personally had this happen to any of mine but have heard of it many times.

I dunno' why, but every time I see anything about prolapses, it always says to use sugar water immediately.

>>Help, i dont know what it is, im calling the vet too. Can anyone tell me what it is and why it he is doing this. Please Help!!!

Sounds like a prolapse. Soak the dragon in warm sugar water and put it on a paper towel substrate. The sugar water sometimes helps the swelling go down enough for it to go back in. You should contact a vet and they can help. Sometimes they put a stitch in the help prevent this from happening again.
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Lisa
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Dissolve as much sugar as you can get in tepid water (about your body temp, not hotter) soak the beardie for a few minutes( you can do this several times) in it then cover the area with vaseline or KY-Jelly to keep it moist.... NOT on paper towels that will draw the mostiure out.

If you have some gauze, cover the area with that like a diaper..... just keep it moist til you can get the dragon to a vet to replace the prolapse and find out why it did.

99% of prolapse are caused by parasites or gram negative bacteria infections and will need to to be treated, sometimes they will have to add a few stitches to the vent area while the problem causing it clears up.

The dragon if treated timely will clear up and be as good as new.... I know its scary to see, but as long as you do not harm the prolapse messing with it, the dragons survive this just fine
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Here is a dragon that prolaped twice in 24 hours seriously and had the surgery and medication for gram negative bacteria.

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Cheri ???

I used moist paper towels as per the vet said. Was this wrong?
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Lisa
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would have drawn out what mositure was left in the tissue.

But, a moist paper towel would still work to keep the area moist as long as the towel was kept wet.

When Myst prolapsed, we spent several hours trying to find a vet on Saturaday evening to take her, a wet paper towel would not have stayed damp long.

I was lucky to be able to get someone on a private list I am on that is a Vet and experienced with reptile prolapses within minutes and he adivsed the soaking in heavy sugar water, then coating her in vaseline, then wrapping gauze loosly around her like a diaper. And most of all not to mess with the prolapse, it is so easy to damage or perforate the bowels.

The vet we finally found to take her credited her fast recover and no damage to that emergency care.

Since it worked for us, I have posted it several times in the past few years on here... I don't mention it much anymore as so many others are knowledgable about it now.

But yes, I think a paper towel kept wet would work too.
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