swelling of wind pipe area

[prncslar03]

fed my colombian sunday, she refused to eat and kept hopper in mouth for a while, after 2 hours itook it away from her VERY gently, her mouth was really swollen and she could not close it all the way, the next two consecutive days she ate one small pinky each day. She has been dehydrated and we were tube feeding pedialyte about a month ago, but since then she has been eating. She is however lathargic and still dehydrated a little. Any ideas about swelling? Lathargic and Dehydrated? HELP!

[Bruin]

Get to a vet. It sounds to me like a RI. meanwhile, raise the Humidity-- HIGH and warm.

My Boa had a similar problem when she had a mild RI. She was slightly bulging like a frog right in the throat area. Humidity did the trick, in my case. The problem was gone within a week. (This problem is pretty well-documented in many of my "manuals" on Boas & snakes.)

Another option could be that its trachea (do snakes have "tracheas?") is bothering it from the force-feeding, perhaps?

Either way, get to a vet. There's no sense in guessing.

Good Luck!

Steve