>>He said that her shed, when not
> >removed within 36 hours, will reattach to the >>new skin. This happened on
>> her head. So when I pulled off her skin on her >>head and eyelids, it was
>> attached to the new skin and actually took off >>her outer eye membrane.
>>That
>> made me feel like major CRAP!!! I felt so bad >>for her.
>Ooooof! Yeow! We live and learn (I didn't know it >would re-attach, either.).
Hola,
IIRC this is a leopard gecko no? If this is the case then there is no brille (the
term for the spectacle in geckos) to have torn off. none of the eublepharine geckos
have such a structure - so you may have done nothing more than remove some debris -
and that is a good thing.
Now if this is not a eublepharine species, then yes - you can forcibly remove the
brille, and if the things are torn off completely then the corneas can suffer badly.
Keeping them moist is an absolute must. Smaller wounds in snake spectacles and gecko
brilles heal amazingly fast, and well. They are nor cosmetically perfect, but if
infection is prevented, they function just fine.
There is an article on Spectacle healing by Chris Murphy out there somewhere.
Keith
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