Love Bite Leaves Tooth in Girl

[reptililian]

One of the gang gave me a goodmorning nip this morning and unfortunately left one of her teeth behind. Will she be ok? She had The Cankor when I first got her, is there a chance she may get it again because of this, or develop some other sort of nasty infection? Is there anything I can do for her?

 

[Brodie]

Keep an eye on her just in case.. She should be fine though.

 

[NCHERPS]

Lilly,

She will be fine.
Just monitor her mouth daily if you are concerned, but she shouldn't get Canker(Mouth Rot) again just from losing a tooth or two.

Neil

 

[junglemad]

Worry about your hand Lilly. Give it a good flush out.

 

[olivehydra]

I would be concerned that the snake may now have a case of food poisoning :lol: :wink:

 

[reptililian]

I ran it under water for a fair while. Is that all I should do? It's not the worst bite I've had, but definately hurts the most.

 

[reptililian]

I would be concerned that the snake may now have a case of food poisoning

Thanks for the vote of confidence in my cooking abilities, OliveH!

 

[junglemad]

When i get bitten...see my nicname..it happens often...i get some dettol on a tissue and give the bite area a good antiseptic rub down. Don't die Lilly!!

 

[reptililian]

No dying! I found out why it hurt so much... there was ANOTHER tooth embedded in my finger still. Oh my poor snake! She lost two teeth and it was all my fault. I feel so guilty. Forget dettol, I should be rubbing salt and lemon juice into it!

 

[Tommo]

No dying! I found out why it hurt so much... there was ANOTHER tooth embedded in my finger still. Oh my poor snake! She lost two teeth and it was all my fault. I feel so guilty. Forget dettol, I should be rubbing salt and lemon juice into it!

i wouldnt be to concerned about the snake loosing afew teeth in a bite, it is fairly common for snakes to loose teeth even in preycapture, so i wouldnt stress

 

[reptililian]

Thanks Tommo. I'm glad you wrote that because I just pulled out a third piece of tooth that had been buried in my finger! (Is this a frequent occurance for herpers??) I guess all the swelling had forced it out. The finger is looking pretty nasty. But I checked The Curious Cat and she seems fine.

 

[herptrader]

Snake and girl will recover fine as others have said. There have been a number of articles in Herpetofauna (and probably elsewhere) over the years examining snake scats and they always find teeth from the snake.

Brian Barnett got a "love bite" from one of his scrubbies years ago which left his footware stapled to his foot with scrubby teeth.

 

[reptililian]

Am recovering already, Herptrader! My finger is looking great this morning. It just didn't like having snake teeth in it, that's all. Ew, don't like the sound of Brians nip. Ouch!

 

[Gilleni]

dont mean to sound like a sicko, but, Got any pics???

 

[shamous1]

Gilleni, you read my mind. They would be pretty interesting to see.

 

[lutzd]

Yeah! No photo - it didn't happen!

 

[reptililian]

You guys surely mean you'd like to see a pic of Brian's little incident, don't you, cos my finger's not much to look at. But if you REALLY wanted, perhaps I could dig the blood-soaked plasters out of the bin and post pics of both them and the shards of teeth I extracted! :wink: