death of my little girl

[ConcinusMan]

I agree. Protazoa can do a lot of permanent damage to the digestive system as well as cause blood loss (bloody runny stools) and secondary infection. nematodes can kill. Certain species can mature and burrow into the lungs and liver (or other vital organs) causing sudden death. This death could have been caused by that but that's just 1 possibility.

Liver flukes (trematodes) can cause liver damage over time. Like I said there are exceptions to the general rule that parasites alone don't kill otherwise healthy snakes. It's just far more common they they don't kill the host as the long as the host is otherwise healthy. They do put stress on the immune system in any case so if you combine that with improper temps/inability to thermoregulate...

[d_virginiana]

nematodes can kill. .

I almost lost one to nematodes early this year. She was healthy beforehand, but apparently it was an uncommon species usually found in mammals, so it took a long time to identify and treat the problem.