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Here is a pic of my crestie's tail i think she had a shed issue before i bought her, Is she going to lose her tail tip? Whats does it look like infected? What can i do to help her? Please help!
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if you can get that shed off..the tail may survive..otherwise, she will eventually lose the tip of her tail. Try soaking the tail...either by giving her a very good misting on that area of her tail (use luke warm water, less likely to make your gecko run away).
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PHLdyPayne

Ouch! The tail does already look swollen and you can see some blood clotting... she'll probably lose it. In addition to what LadyP said, we have successfully used a product called "Bio Mist" from Trex for crestie sheds. It is nice because it has natural oils (ok, jojoba is a liquid wax) and electrolytes for rehydration and skin conditioners. The other advantage is the bottle has a very fine mist and we find cresties aren't bothered by being misted with the product at very close range and we can get more of the product on before the gecko figures it has put up with us enough. (Even one girl with some shed on her eye... no, I have no idea how she accomplished that, but she did. Got the shed off of one of her crests and then stuck it to her eye for a week.)

Good luck, we'll be pulling for her tail to stay intact.
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there was a baby crested gecko that had a shed issue and a ring that looked just like that around its tail closer to the base at our petco, and my manager let me take it home overnight to work off the shed. after several soaks, q-tip and micro-tweezer treatments, i was able to remove an actual ring of dead skin from around the point of constriction. it left what appeared to be scar tissue, or at least there was no "epidermis" (not sure what that's called in reptile skin). it did not appear to be infected and the tail was still alive and didn't drop. i had to return it to the store and was going to purchase it later because i had grown fond of it, it was so mellow and cooperative during its treatments, but someone beat me to it, so i don't know what became of its tail in the long run. =(

if you are comfortable handling your little one and it's cooperative enough, you can attempt to remove the constricting skin, otherwise you can either let it run its course and the end will probably die and fall off, or you can have the vet clip the tail right above the ring and give you some silvadene cream to put on the wound until it heals. either way, it will have a round nub and short tail, or it will drop altogether. it doesn't look infected at the moment, just keep an eye on it.

oh and on your other pic about the missing toes, it looks like it still has little nubs on the front right foot so it should be fine.
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