How to Treat Mouth Rot in Pet Snakes

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village I'm Nicole from Pet Kingdom and I'm here to tell you about sick snakes. Another problem that often occurs in captive snakes is stomatitas or mouth rot. What that is-is a fungal infection that takes over your snakes mouth and causes a cheesy discharge or very thick saliva inside of the mouth. If you open up the snakes mouth and you take a look inside and there is saliva that is stretching from the top to the bottom just seems real thick or white or mucousy cheesy in any way. This can be an indication of mouth rot this can be treated mild cases with something such as rot guard. What this is-is a powder you dilute it with water you mix it up and you flush the snakes mouth out with it. It's not always an easy thing to do but very important. Advanced cases of mouth rot will cause serious infections and most likely death and if you fear that your snake does have mouth rot and you are not able to clear it up with it anti fungal treatment such as the right guard. I will advise you to take your snake to the vet as soon as possible."