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bearded dragon injury?

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Question
my female bearded dragon layed eggs along with some yellow stuff ate one of the eggs and now has a pink bulge coming out of her rectum

Answer
I'm sorry this question was not answered for you. I hope someone helped you as this sounds like a cloacal prolapse. This happens sometimes and it's a serious situation! Someone should have directed you to a vet or to another expert.

It is important to keep the tissue moist and clean until you can see a vet to have the tissue replaced. Rinse the tissue with sterile saline or filtered water. Get her off of any particulate substrate such as sand, and put her on paper towels. Keep the tissue continually damp.

Hopefully this information is not too late.
Until you can get to a vet, try some lukewarm soaks in the tub. You can also try adding heavy sugar to the water, and this will help to shrink the tissue. It may return on it's own. If it does not after about 30 minutes in the tub, take her out and out her back on paper towels after coating the tissue with mineral oil to protect it. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PUSH THE TISSUE BACK YOURSELF. If you are not gentle enough or insert it wrongly, you could perforate the tissue which will in all likelihood be fatal, or you might bind the tissue and cause a fatal impaction and another possible prolapse.

Repeat the sugar water baths and mineral oil several time a day until you get to a vet. This cannot go on without an immediate vet trip, or it WILL be fatal.

I hope this information can help in time, or help someone else.