Piglet the Toothless and her eye: E-collar options?

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Karin1

Post   » Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:25 pm


Her eye looks pretty bad, it looks like one of my pigs eyes when she had damage. Are you putting artificial tears to keep it from drying out? There is also this grease stuff we would put in her eye and would keep her eye from drying out for hours. I frogot the name. That's a cute thing to protect there eye though. The vet just sowed my pigs eye shut so it could heal then she took the stitches out.

This is a pic of after we put the stuff in her eye to keep it from drying out. Her eye was really blue before but changed color.

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Karin1

Post   » Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:26 pm


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Karin1

Post   » Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:30 pm


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Here is when it was stitched up.

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allcreatures

Post   » Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:12 am


Yes, your pics are great! Let me know if I can add them to the thread for future readers.

Of course! Glad they can be of use!

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I definitely think I see improvement in the eye today. It still looks bad, but flipping back and forth between this and the first eye pic, it seems that the clouding is slightly less and that the redness around the inside corner is slightly less.

I ended up leaving the e-collar off, which may prove to have been a mistake, but she just seems miserable in it. I've been giving her time without it for about an hour morning and night, and each time I take it off, she grooms frantically for a few minutes, eats some cecals, and then takes a nap. Poor baby must be so uncomfortable.

Are you putting artificial tears to keep it from drying out?

Yes. She gets two types of antibiotic drops, and whenever those aren't freshly applied, she gets sterile saline drops as often as possible. I like the idea of a grease or gel lubricant, though, I need to look into that! I've been afraid the the drops just leak out because it's so bulgy.

Oddly, her eye looks MUCH worse as soon as I put any drops in. It sort of... convulses. Almost rolls back and shows much more of the gland at the inner corner. But it's not actually rolling, it looks more like it's moving backwards in the socket, which I don't think is anatomically possible. Utterly bizarre.

I'm also not convinced she's closing it at all. I think tonight my partner and I are going to sit on either side of her and have a staring contest to see if she closes just the good eye or both. Would it be possible that a lower incisor extraction could damage a facial nerve which controls blinking?

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mkkayla
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Post   » Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:00 am


I would that is a possiblility, but I hope that is not what happened.

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Karin1

Post   » Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:33 pm


My Rosie started out with a very bad ear infection, and it went into her eye. A vet I went to gave her the wrong drops and a hurt her eye very badly. My new vet was going to remove the eye, but never did instead she thought she could save it by sowing it shut and putting meds on it. I know for sure her facial nerves were damaged and she couldnt blink...hence she had the "greasy" drops to keep from her eye drying out. The eye got so bad I think it went to her brain and it affected her movement of her body( she would just go in circles and fall over) I had to put her down because she got so bad.
I would check to make sure her facial nerves arent damaged.

Talishan
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Post   » Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:58 pm


There is a gel/ointment lubricant/hyrdration stuff that helps keep the eye moist and also helps 'seal' medicated drops in. Of course I can't think of the name of it, but IIRC both Salana and Brandilynn have used it successfully. Hopefully one will see this and if not, perhaps email them.

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salana
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Post   » Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:47 pm


GenTeal or generic knockoff. It was great for Suzi's hay poke.

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