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Originally Posted by Max's New Mom  Hi everyone~ I'm really curious to see if anyone else has dealt with this in a young puppy...First off I'm a fairly new YT Mom and my little guy is only 8 months now. When I got him he was 5 months old and I noticed that he would hold his one eye shut/squint alot and there was also some yellow mucousy discharge. I took him to the vet and they gave me an antibiotic thinking it was "pink eye". The ointment didn't really do much for him and I continued to put rewetting drops in because that seemed to work better. Any way- today I took him to the vet again and asked them to do the tears test and his eye barely registered a 1 on the stick! The vet says he hasn't seen this type of severe dry eye in a pup so young. He wants me to use Optimune 2x a day as well as keep using the genTeel gel several times a day. We go back for a recheck in 2 weeks. I looked online and see that Yorkies sometimes do not have enough of the tear producing gland tissue.
Has anyone had this with their little baby and if so what have you done for them? A possible option that the vet talked about way down the road is transposition- from what I have heard/read the "re-route" a saliva gland to the eye?
Anyone with info to pass on to Max and me would be greatly appreciated!!
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i personally would deal with a opthamologist with this. It sounds like there is no tear duct in such a young dog
I have been to opthamologist with my boy yorkie as we thought he had dry eye and they are wonderful and very knowledgeable about the latest medications with it as well - for dry eye they use cyclosporine drops - The opthamologist has more specialized equipment too to give you a firm diagnosis
a test they do is they put dye where tear duct is and if it does not roll out of the nostril then it is blocked or they can tell by looking through a microscope to see if there is a duct at all
are you near the ohio state university ? as my dh is from ohio and graduated from there and they have an excellent vet school