General Care Routine Notes Rescuing Snails that have been stepped on
Behavior Inactivity Sealed In Not Eating Not Eating Calcium Rasping/Eating Shell(s) Deeply Retracted Excessive Mucus		Appearance Slow Growth Bad Shell Growth Split/Cracked Shell Broken/Chipped Shell Wounds Limp Body Broken Radula Swollen Body Swollen Mouth Swollen Tentacles Gut Extrusion Mantle Collapse Mutation		Pests Flies Mites Worms Maggots Mold Other		Miscellaneous Dehydration Asphyxiation Pseudomonas Infection Internal Tumours Sudden Multiple Death

Swollen Mouth

This is a problem experienced occasionally and could well be related to Gut Extrusion as the early symptoms.

There is little you can do unfortunately. Try and make the snail comfortable. Personally, if it happened to me, I'd try and bathe the swollen area with tepid water. I'd also provide drinking water. Snails exhibiting these problems are likely to die, so I'd try Aloe vera or something similar in application to try and soothe the condition.

So far it seems to be neither something that spreads to other snails, or something external. However, it is worth noting that snails seem to require soil flora and fauna to digest things. Changes in this micro-culture could cause digestion problems. For more reasoning on this and other possible causes see Gut Extrusion.

Problems

Swollen Mouth

Further Reading