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hi i am relatively new to the herp keeping world, and i am not sure how to treat a purlapse. i saw the post on the purlapsed corn, but i want to be sure of what i am doing

i weas away for 3 days and this morning i noticed my adult male bp had a purlapse.
he is housed with a female, and has been copulating like mad for at least 2 months.
i keep them on a carpet with a bowl large enough to curl up in.
and a warm and cold hide i use a exotera heat mat under the cage at the warm end.
i have heard of soaking the snake in sugar water, and i wanted to know if this works and what concentration of sugar to use.
should i use some ky jelly instead? or is petroleum jelly better?
of a posible helpful note, i may have accidentally separated them when i tryed to pick him up. they were both hiding on hte warm end of the tank

I realize it has been a few days since you have posted this... if the prolapse has not resolved, don't hesitate and see your veterinarian asap.

The main goal is to keep the tissue from dying. It is not supposed to be exposed. It should be kept moist (sugar water, or even just plain high humidity/damp paper towel substrate). KY jelly is ideal to use as a lube and if a very fresh prolapse you may try to gently push back inside.

It doesn't take long for the tissue to swell, and thus replacement becomes very difficult. Your vet should be taking over at this point, but a steriod is sometimes put on the tissue to essentially pass the collected fluid back into other tissues in the body. This may allow an easier replacement of the prolapse. Sutures may be needed to hold things in for a while, and surgical removal is used if the tissue is dead or dying.

Ian

sorry never got to respond back, my cop wen down. the purlapse went back in on its own, just took a couple hours, thanks for the response.