Hi everyone.
My little 1 year old has had an eye issue that started about 4 weeks ago. At first the skin looked puffy and red and she would squint looking at light. Other than that she has been behaving completely normal. Never any discharge or pawing at it. The vet said it’s probably an infection and put her on the eye gel Ilium Chloroint. It got better, but never completely because she was still squinting sometimes. Last week I started noticing the colour of her iris becoming red and the pupil a bit reflective. The vet said he couldn’t see it and to put her back on the gel.
Then yesterday it looked much worse. Really obviously cloudy and reddened iris and closed a lot of the time. Took her to the vet again and she could see a tiny ulcer. The previous vets had checked for this too, but maybe it wasn’t there before? Does that make sense? Anyway, now she’s on Ilium Opticin 3xday and Doxy 100 paste 1xday and to bring her back in 3 days. If it isn’t improving she’ll refer her to a specialist.
I can‘t stop worrying about it. This morning when I woke up it looked worse than yesterday. More cloudy, but could that be the residual gel coating her eye from 9 hours ago? Her eye stays shut now, the skin looks bothered and her third eyelid is now covering about a quarter of the eye. Could it just be from all the poking around yesterday (the vet looked under her third eyelid and also used lots of drops). Could it just be getting worse before it starts to get better? The receptionist at the vet said to just do what the vet said.
Could such a tiny ulcer make the eye look so bad? I’m worried something else is wrong or it’ll get worse before I see the vet again in 2 days
My little 1 year old has had an eye issue that started about 4 weeks ago. At first the skin looked puffy and red and she would squint looking at light. Other than that she has been behaving completely normal. Never any discharge or pawing at it. The vet said it’s probably an infection and put her on the eye gel Ilium Chloroint. It got better, but never completely because she was still squinting sometimes. Last week I started noticing the colour of her iris becoming red and the pupil a bit reflective. The vet said he couldn’t see it and to put her back on the gel.
Then yesterday it looked much worse. Really obviously cloudy and reddened iris and closed a lot of the time. Took her to the vet again and she could see a tiny ulcer. The previous vets had checked for this too, but maybe it wasn’t there before? Does that make sense? Anyway, now she’s on Ilium Opticin 3xday and Doxy 100 paste 1xday and to bring her back in 3 days. If it isn’t improving she’ll refer her to a specialist.
I can‘t stop worrying about it. This morning when I woke up it looked worse than yesterday. More cloudy, but could that be the residual gel coating her eye from 9 hours ago? Her eye stays shut now, the skin looks bothered and her third eyelid is now covering about a quarter of the eye. Could it just be from all the poking around yesterday (the vet looked under her third eyelid and also used lots of drops). Could it just be getting worse before it starts to get better? The receptionist at the vet said to just do what the vet said.
Could such a tiny ulcer make the eye look so bad? I’m worried something else is wrong or it’ll get worse before I see the vet again in 2 days