Illness/Sickness: H.Orientalis bleeding lesions, bacterial infection?

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Hello,
my 11 months old CFBN developed something I could only describe as lacerations or missing flesh under her eyes and today, when I checked her up, she had this hole like lesion in her belly. Yesterday, she refused to eat, but otherwise she was still quite active. Two days ago, when I checked her up and noticed the problem under her eyes, I did not notice the lesion on her belly. Now, she is barely reacting, I separated her in a smaller plastic box with shallower water level.
She is long-term (5 months) housed in the quarantine tank (18 litres ~ 5 gal) with her other sibling, that has a problem with enlarged left eye (it has been like that for 2 months without change). The other one seems okay, eating, active.
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Is there a way to save her? Thank you for all your help and responses.
 
How is the newt doing??

Could it be a scratch from something sharp in the enclosure?

If you have sulfadiazine cream( unlikely this is a prescription)I recommend adding it to the lession everyday until it improves could be up to 2 weeks. You can also use colloidal silver or plain neosporin (without pain or other additions) the same way. If the newt is not eating try rehydratting it by giving it a soak in amphibian ringers solution, can buy it online.
 
Thank you for your reply.
The infection from the wounds under her eyes spreaded all over her eyes and mouth. It looked more like a grayish slime instead of white fuzz. Before the original post I started the salt bath treatement, but she was obviously in pain from it and I didn't want to stress her out even more.
Later that day, my vet friend (not specialized in exotic animals) checked her, after reading Treatment of Sores and Wounds in Caudates article, she recommended cleaning the infected wounds with hydrogen peroxide. After that silver sulfadiazine cream was applied.
We discussed treating her with systemic antibiotics, but we didn't make it. She unfortunately passed away two days after the original post.

The scratch was the first thing I thought about. The only possibly sharp thing in her tank was an artificial plant she used to hang on. Otherwise it was a bare bottom tank, with some big pebbles without sharp edges, Anubias, Java Fern and moss.
Her siblings have the same plant in their tanks and her parents were also raised from juveniles with the identical plant. I use it in all my tanks, because they like to rest on it, since it is floating and it helps them with shedding. They had it in their tanks since they were larvae, it was the first plant they had climbed on after metamorphosis and I have never noticed any injury because of it. That's why I'm clueless in this regard.
 
Thank you for your reply.
The infection from the wounds under her eyes spreaded all over her eyes and mouth. It looked more like a grayish slime instead of white fuzz. Before the original post I started the salt bath treatement, but she was obviously in pain from it and I didn't want to stress her out even more.
Later that day, my vet friend (not specialized in exotic animals) checked her, after reading Treatment of Sores and Wounds in Caudates article, she recommended cleaning the infected wounds with hydrogen peroxide. After that silver sulfadiazine cream was applied.
We discussed treating her with systemic antibiotics, but we didn't make it. She unfortunately passed away two days after the original post.

The scratch was the first thing I thought about. The only possibly sharp thing in her tank was an artificial plant she used to hang on. Otherwise it was a bare bottom tank, with some big pebbles without sharp edges, Anubias, Java Fern and moss.
Her siblings have the same plant in their tanks and her parents were also raised from juveniles with the identical plant. I use it in all my tanks, because they like to rest on it, since it is floating and it helps them with shedding. They had it in their tanks since they were larvae, it was the first plant they had climbed on after metamorphosis and I have never noticed any injury because of it. That's why I'm clueless in this regard.
Thanks for sharing the outcome! I'm very sorry for your loss but I'm glad your others are doing well! I also keep anubias I doubt it was the plant. It sounds like it could have been bacteria/fungal infection? Anyway all the best!
 
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