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Question about a tail injury...

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I juso want to know if I should take off that dead part that is hanging or wait and see what happens to it. I just don't want her to drop her pretty tail. She aparently got into it with her sister, they have been housed in a blanket box togehter for over a year and a half peacefully, I can't think of any other way she injured it though.
 

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I would just leave it alone until the exposed part of her tail starts scabbing over, and then remove it with some sterile cuticle scissors. A little Neosporin or other topical antibiotic robably would help some, too.
 
Yeah tab some neosporin on and wait.I doubt thats a sereve enough injury to cause her to drop her tail but put the neo on to aid the healing process.
 
Thanks all, I did the neosporin, I jus wasn't sure if I should snip that peice or not. So I think I will leave it alone till it scabs, Thaks Marcia.
 
I actually had one of my leos sustain an identical injury. In her case, when it healed the flap stayed (I didn't want to remove it for the same reasons you stated). The flap scaled over and remained, it never gave her any problem shedding etc. If there isn't circulation to the flap as there was in my leos case, it will probably fall off with one of her next sheds.

-Alice
 
Keep an eye on that area even after it heals. One of my big girls had a similar "rip" in her tail. It healed fine. Then on eday I was just holding her and looking and I noticed hardness in that area and one of the knobby scales seemed inflammed or just odd looking....I poked at it (for lack of better terms) with some tweezers and a huge ball of nastiness popped out....now it is healed perfectly. The infection never spread and it had to have been like that for over a month or two....but I never really looked too close after I had noticed it appeared healed the first time...now I know to double check even after a bite mark or anything, has healed up...
 
i had almost that exact thing happen in the exact same spot to my male who is housed by himself. he was fine one night when i went to bed and when i woke up there was a chunk missing from his tail. it was the wierdest thing ever. i had thought about doing neosporin but wasnt sure if it would harm him if he ate some so i just left it alone and after a while it healed fine but now that i know that neosporin is ok i wish that i would have used it because im sure that it would have healed a lot quicker. so just keep a close eye on it and hopefully it will be ok. is this a fairly common injury? and if so does anybody have any ideas of how or why this happens? i had fed him mealworms the night before so maybe one hadnt gotten eaten and chewed on his tail some? could a mealworm cause that much damage?
Thanks,
Justin
 
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