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During the two years I've been caring for chondros, I've dealt with three prolapses. Through my own personal experiences, I have noticed that after re-insertion of the tissue, the chondro always goes through a period of discomforture; usually this lasts for a week or so. I also have noticed that the prolapses I've dealt with have always happend while the chondro was passing larger then normal fecal matter. ( Prolly from too large of prey items or some fashion of constipation.) I suspect that it's this difficulty of passing fecal matter which causes the tissue to swell and remain outside the cloaca. In this case there would still be some fecal matter that was not passed and would contribute to the discomfiture in the chondro. I also attribute this period of dicomfort to the re-insertion of the tissue being placed back inside the chondro. My own personal feelings are that as long as the tissue dosn't dry out and is not ruptured in the process then that it will work itself out inside the chondro. My understanding is that the dangers of prolapses come from 1.) The intestinal tissue drying out while hanging out of the cloaca, which in turn kills the tissue causing necrosis. and 2.) The issue of the intestinal tissue being ruptured while being placed back inside due to its softness. 3.) I suppose if the prolapse was large enough that maybe their could be an issue of the tissue being put back in the place wrong or a shifting of organs and such. But I would think that it would have to be very large one. (Larger then the one I had atleast.)

I'll share two personal experiences I hope you can learn from:
1.) I had a 1,000 gm female that had a rather large prolapse ( Alittle over two inches). This was my first time dealing with prolapses and it was propably about as bad is it can get. It happend while I was pairing her up with a male of mine. I attribute this prolapse to food items and perhaps stress due to the cycling. Over the period of two weeks she prolapsed three times. Each time I took her to the vet and the vet would re-insert the tissue and stitch her up. Upon taking out the stitches the tissue would come out again and promptly be placed back in. After the third time everything worked itself out and she is now happy as can be. I would like to note that I always applied a dextrose solution to the tissue to relieve some swelling (sugar water) and covered the tissue with petroleum jelly (KY). Also I would like to note that my male had actually gotten her pregnant before the prolapse and she alittle over two months later went on to lay a clutch of 27eggs.

2.) The second experience I had was with a 2yr old chondro and it happened on a weekend. The prolapse was prolly half the size of the first one I dealt with. My vet was out of town for some veterinarian seminar in texas at the time.( I refuse to go to anyone but him as I've had some horrible experiences with other vets.). I had a cage set-up with two inches of water that the chondro was housed in, so as to keep the tissue submerged and prevent it from drying out. I was unable to get vet attention for the chondro for a full 36 hrs. The chondros tissue was hanging out for all of those 36hrs but since it was submerged it had the oppurtunity to dry out. The tissue was eventually put back in place and the chondro is alive and well with no health issues what so ever.

I'm not a hundred percent sure of the exact nature with your prolapses as there were a couple of terms that I havn't heard of. But I hope that perhaps you or someone else can get some useful information from my own experiences.

Tony V.