Quote Originally Posted by ConcinnusMan View Post

So did you just have to give her an oral anti-parasitic course or what? I would think that if it was hookworm (that's the usual nematode that causes dermatitis in people) that you and/or other exposed people would also be carrying them as well as the immediate environment in which case you could easily just keep re-infecting.

In any case snake skin takes quite a bit of time to get back to normal once the culprit is gone. Next shed she could be totally back to normal.

EDIT: somehow missed an entire page of updates before I posted that ^^^.
Yeah, we gave her an oral antiparasitic course. I believe the parasites may have come from some mice we had been buying from a local petstore. I stopped feeding them shortly after she got sick because I got some that had clearly not been properly frozen. I don't think they were freezing them long enough to kill all parasites. It'd make sense too, since Houdini doesn't eat a lot of mice (he prefers fish) and the baby was only getting legs/tails at the time, so Harley was the only one actually eating those mice whole and getting the gut contents.