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Shed problem, please help

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I have a 2 week old baby leo who has had problems with the last 2 sheds. Around his eyes and nose the skin gets stuck. Everywhere else sheds fine, but I have had to help clear his/her face the last 2 times. Otherwise the baby is growing very quickly and doing well and its roommate never has shed problems. Any thoughts or advice, I really don't have any brilliant ideas....
 
does he look like he has any eye deformities? big eye .little eye, or eye slits (vertical) or small lid(s). SOMETIMES babies having bad eye sheds is due to some form of an eye deformity also, the continual bad shed can sometimes cause eye infections. just up the humidity... might want to separate him and mist his enclosure daily or every other day and put a very shallow but kind of wide water dish in with him (to create more humidity without the chance of him drowning)
 
I've had normal babies with shed problems. Sometimes it just seems to be incompetence :shrug01: on the baby's part. If you still have problems after trying Robin's suggestions, just resign yourself to assisting with the shed. They usually outgrow their difficulties in a month or two.

-Alice
 
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