shed skin has started to cut into toes!!!

[xraverxbabyx]

our baby monkey tailed skink, had unshed skin stuck round his toes.... it's only 3 months old so it's not used to human contact, which makes it difficult to handle(plus his bites are quite painfull, and if he catches you right make you bleed like hell), this presents a problem, i have noticed that on one toe it's has cut into the flesh very deeply, we managed to catch him, and after a few good bites to me and my b/f i managed to get this skin off. as i said on one toe it is very deep, it has cut through the skin, and there is a wound(running round the base of his toe, i am hoping he wont lose it, altho the vet seems to think he'll be fine) took him to vets(currently no specialist exotic vet in our city), but all he said was clean it with tamodine, which we are doing. is there anything else i can do?

 

[PaulSage]

Sorry to hear that, Sacha. You could try putting him in a large tub or extra aquarium with a thick layer of paper toweling on the bottom, and then soak the paper toweling very well with warm water. The moisture should help to loosen up the stuck shed on his toes, and when he moves around the paper toweling should help to pull it off. The main thing you'll want to watch out for is that he doesn't get too cold, since he'd be sitting on wet paper toweling. I would leave him in there for at least a half hour, and then if you can put something over his head (or wear gloves or have someone help you) and try to gently pull the stuck skin away from his toes. I'd keep an eye on him the whole time though. The tamodine is a wide spectrum wound cleanser which will help prevent infection, but by itself won't "fix" the stuck shed problem.

Good luck and keep us updated.

 

[xraverxbabyx]

i look like an advert for tamodine myself!!! covered in bites and splodges of orange where it's been struggling!! i have all the skin off, and none of it's toes have gone black he just has two wounds on two feet. so all i can do is keep cleaning it up with tamodine.. have to admit tamodine is working wonders on mybites!!! wonder if it's alrite for human use..cant seem to find the tcp...