Giving eye drops

[Skullblits]

Does anyone have any suggestions for giving a piggie eye drops.
We have Isathal and it just seems to mostly run off it seems kind of thick and not great

 

[Wiebke]

Does anyone have any suggestions for giving a piggie eye drops.
We have Isathal and it just seems to mostly run off it seems kind of thick and not great

Giving eye drops is not easy. Unless you are very practised, you want somebody else to hold your piggy firmly while you try to gently pull down the lower lid a bit and aim the drops into the gap between the lid and eyeball. that is how vets, doctors and nurses do it with both animals and humans.

The other method is to sneak in the eye drops from behind once your piggy is absorbed in aplate of fresh grass, veg or hay on your knees, sitting on our thighs and facing away from you. They can't multitask, so won't react quite as quickly as if you had their full attention.

There is always a certain amount of spillage in my experience.

 

[VickiA]

Isathal is just one thick drop. I usually pop the drop onto the eye, then very gently manipulate the lids to make sure the drop goes over the whole eyeball, then leave the eye well alone.

 

[VickiA]

I should add, that I’ve been doing this for years with numerous piggies, but if you have a wrigglers, then it’s best, as Wiebke says, to get someone to hold the piggy while you put the drop in.

 

[Skullblits]

Thanks for the tips.
I hold her and my GF does the drops.
It is a challenge and the Isathal does seem kind of tricky to work with as it's alot thicker than I remember.