Corn with blisters

[puta]

I have a corn that about 2 wks ago developed a blister on her side!
I bought some wash for the snake and have been washin it.
Now she it has grown to about a quarter size and she also now has some ones ones comin in on the rest of her body!
She lives in a big rubbermaid and she has a hide and she is on newspaper!
Can anyone tell me if they are tumors?
thanks

[vanderkm]

How old is she? What is her temperature gradient and what is the humidity in her tub? When was her last shed? Where on her body are the 'blisters' and can you describe them more - color, skin lifted, skin gone and reddened? - any chance of a photo. What are you using to wash it with?

Answers to these questions might help with some ideas of what the problem could be, but only a visit to a vet will be able to sort things out completely (and even that might not be conclusive with out procedures like a skin biopsy - especially if infections are ruled out). No one here will be able to tell you for sure what you are dealing with, but may be able to offer more suggestions with more info.

mary v.

[Katt]

Blister Diseases (yes plural!) is like metabolic bone diseases (again plural!) in that cause of it can be due to a variety of reasons.

The easiest to deal with are husbandry issues. Too wet conditions with little ventilation can cause the skin to blister. The constant contact with wet conditions can lead to small localized bacterial infections of the skin. A simply drying out, change of substrate and a waiting out til the next shed can rid you of the blisters. Typically, you will only see one or two blisters b/c of this. If there are more blisters, this points to something a bit more complicated.

A severe blister outbreak can be due to systemic infection, be this fungal, bacterial or viral. This is very serious. The blisters are only SYMPTOMS of an underlying, but very SERIOUS problem. The issue is not to deal with the blisters aside from providing a clean dry environment, but dealing with the cause, the actual infection. A snake with severe blisters, must be taken to a vet and treated. The blisters may appear to go away, but the infection could still be there and could kill your snake eventually.

I have seen this first hand, where a snake has shed out numerous blisters, only to die two weeks later.

Best of luck with your snake. I sure hope it is nothing serious, but I would treat it as such, b/c you say the blisters are back and there are more. Obviously the problem has not gone away.