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Vomiting Dumerils

Throat cultures, fecal and x-rays show that I have what looks to be a healthy snake.
Here is the problem.
For its size it should easily eat a medium rat. If I feed it anything over a small rat it vomits it up in a day.
I have tried two adult mice and it vomits. I have tried one medium rat, it vomits
It will only keep down one small rat or one adult mouse at a time.
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Probiotics (Benebac). You need to replentish the gut flora with some good bacteria. Then feed a pink or fuzzy rat a week after giving probiotics. I know this sounds small and useless but you aren't feeding the snake. You are feeding the enzymes and getting them working again. In one week, give more probiotics but no food. The next week give more probiotics and a weaned rat, In two weeks give a small rat and every two weeks gradually increase the prey size to back to normal. Good luck.
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any idea what the heck is causing it????
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Lots of things can cause it and I don't even know if this will fix it but it's got a pretty good track record.

Some causes...vague as they may be:

Stress (Lots of causes of stress but it is a disease once it sets in. It messes with the hormone secretion from the hypothalamus and if not treated, kills. People tend to take stress too lightly and consider it an emotion or something due to it's overuse in the english language.

parasites (clean fecal doesn't always mean there are no parasites)
Food too large, too many or too frequent
Food improperly thawed/still partially frozen or overheated
Food Spoiled/freezerburned
Cage temps too warm or too cool
Blockage in the digestive tract
Tumor/Cancer
Dehydration
Infection (viral or bacterial)

Without knowing everything about how any snake is kept, I can't possibly have anything better than a wild guess. I know or at least believe you take care of your animals and provide for them beyond what's normal for most folks and have been around the block enough to recognize if anything was off with them so your guess is as good as anyone's about why. What I do know is that if a snake has puked a few times in fairly rapid succession like this, the gut flora is gone and even if whatever was making it puke originally has been taken care of, it's a slow road back to normal digestion without some help. Many won't make it on their own.
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