You're welcome.... I use plain normal saline solution to clean around the eyes, and in a dropper to flush the eyes like on a windy day when dust and stuff may blow around and end up in the eyes. It's good to use also to flush out stray hairs and stuff too. I keep a tube of antibacterial eye ointment (no steroids) for general use in maintaining eye health.
Once my dogs had a skirmish, and my little guy's eye started swelling as I watched. I thought maybe saliva from the other dog may have gotten into his eye, so I quickly rinsed it, and put some AB eye ointment in it, before we went to the vet. It looked normal when the vet saw it, but I told her what happened. He did have some minor punctures (actually scrapes) on his lower lid and nose, and the vet wanted to give me Animax for it, but I said I was concerned with it being so close to the eye, could I just use the eye ointment on those wounds... she said yes.
So next morning, there's a greenish yellow pus in this eye. So I rinse it out, and as I applied the eye ointment I saw a tiny cut on the inside of his lower lid. This was missed the day before, but I was more concerned with the vet checking the eyeball itself so I wasn't too concerned, just made sure to apply the ointment 2x daily for a week then had the vet check it when he went back for a recheck.
Long story just to say eye supplies come in handy... Sterile Saline Solution, Natural Tears (nothing else), Triple Antibiotic eye ointment, and we're good to go! Oh and a flea comb to rmove gunk from the hair around the eyes (after it softens with the Saline Solution)
