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Originally Posted by Patti  I had a yorkie years ago with an abscess. His was caused by a bad tooth. I forget which one but one tooth on each side can do this. I didn't know about Zorro's until one morning he yelped and ran off the bed. I looked at him and he had a hole under his eye with stuff draining out. I took him to his vet and after being on an antibiotic for a few days they removed the tooth and the one on the other side just as a precaution. If it happens again maybe a specialty clinic could put him under a light sedation and remove the tooth, if that is the cause. They have a lot of high tech equipment to help with high risk animals. I will keep her in my prayers that she has no reoccurence. |
I know that these abscesses are generally caused by a tooth, but they've looked as much as they can with her and can't find an issue with a tooth. The vet said if caused by a tooth, the swelling is generally under the eye, and hers was more above the eye and on the bridge of her nose. The vet at this point is saying she thinks it was most likely caused by infection in her sinus from allergies. I just have to hope she's right. We do have her at a specialty clinic. They are really concerned about anesthesia with her and she nearly did not make it after enucleation surgery a couple of years ago. When glaucoma hit her second eye, they would not remove her eye because of that. She had a procedure where they went in with a needle, removed most of the contents of her eyeball and filled the eyeball with something to kill the remaining cells. The procedure is called chemical ablation and is also usually done under anesthesia. Our eye specialist had never done one on an awake dog. Peaches was her first. They gave her some kind of drop in the eye to numb it and voila - she sat right there and let them do it. But they never would have even tried it if they thought she could make it through anesthesia.
Believe me, I wish she could have anesthesia so we could drain this thing and get it over with.
Diana and the Scoobster