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03-09-2013, 03:41 PM | #1 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: montana
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| Dry eyes I had to take Morgan to the vet yesterday. His eyes were all crusty. My vet gave me some ointment to put in his eyes . I have to take him back next Friday and she is going to do a tear test to check for dry eyes. Has anyone ever dealt with this ? At this point she is thinking it could be a conjuntivitis |
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03-09-2013, 05:45 PM | #2 |
Therapy Yorkies Work Donating Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: Central, Florida
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| Hope ladyjane sees this. I can't help you. Bump
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03-09-2013, 06:13 PM | #3 |
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03-09-2013, 07:31 PM | #4 |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
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| I have had 2 babies over the years with issues that resulted in dry eyes...one was from an injury to her eye from my son's (nasty!) cat...the other was on one of my pups that got that parvo several years ago. The virus settled in the nerve that stimulated the tear gland to produce tears...just shut it off...so I do eye care on him twice a day for the rest of his life....I used Restasis ....I also bought some med that was invented in Switzerland that cost a small fortune...shipped it her to me...but it did not help, so I stopped.......the active ingredient in that Restasis eye drop is cyclosporin...the eye specialist told me they couldnt be sure it would "turn that nerve back on" so that the pup would start producing tears again, but we gave it a good hard try...it did NOT work, so every day, twice a day, we wash his eyes with warm water, and then I used GenTeal Eye Drops...they seem to last the longest and I get the best results from them...use them in the morning and again at night. I also use something that I got from a cancer doc at the hospital...they use it on patients that can no longer make tears...LacriSert...it is a little insert the size of a grain of rice...you drop it between the lower lid and the eyeball, and it dissolves slowly over 12 hours to keep the eye lubricated. If your dog rubs his eyes after you put that in his eye, he can dislodge the LacriSert and it is not doing him any good...he can also scratch his cornea with the insert itself...my boy is used to the Lacrisert and does not try to dislodge it at all....I do give him a break from them and use the GenTeal drops about every third week...in my mind, I call it giving him a break just in case it should feel like a grain of sand is in his eye...both of these work great for my babies dry eyes..... Last edited by Yorkiemom1; 03-09-2013 at 07:34 PM. |
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