My girlfriend and I have had Aspen for 5ish months and have noticed she is a little reserved. Recently she stopped eating, and started sneezing a lot. We thought it was a cold and got her some medicine for it. Her sneezing has gotten better and she has started eating again, however now she is having balance issues and her eye is shriveling up. She definitely cannot see out of her eye well, or at all because she moves her head to see things with the other side of her head. Please help and share if you have had a similar problem!
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Please have that eye seen and treated ASAP if you want to save it!
Make sure that you keep it well hydrated with visco tear gel (about 6 times a day), but you will also need a vet check and antibiotic eyedrops. Please discuss the use of visco tears, but they can keep your eye from shrivelling even though they will not heal the injury that is at the bottom of the problem and that your vet will have to judge as to whether the damage is too big to save or not.
My very skittish new arrival Nosgan managed to bash in his eye badly during a mad dash for safety a year ago; it was shrivelled and ulcerated, but thankfully not perforated. Thanks to prompt vet care and dedicated application of about three different gels and eye drops about 9 times a day I managed to save his eye against the odds. Nosgan even regained partial sight again but the surface of his eye has sustained permanent damage. It was a very close shave and could have easily gone the other way.
Every hour you wait can make the difference between keeping or losing that eye; it is really an emergency!
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