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my hubby came home yesterday with a 12 week old female guinea pig shes an absolute treasure loves her veg and hay shes happy to lay on your belly and go to sleep any how i started to clean the hutch out tonight when i noticed poppy has a gunky eye and I'm not sure what to do would you all advise bathing her eye or visiting the vets she is kept indoors shes such a little cutey pie so full of life and as a lot of love to give her eye doesnt seem to be bothering her but I'm not sure what could be causing it should i take her back to the pet shop please help
 
Hi Mollie,

In what way is the eye gunky - just lots of discharge in/around it? Is she holding her eye closed at all? Does the eye look cloudy, bloodshot or sunken at all?

With regards to what to do, if there's no serious injury evident (e.g. ruptured eye, very serious punture wound) I would bathe the eye with cooled boiled water - use a cotton pad or needleless syringe to drip water into the eye for a few seconds then gently wipe using a fresh cotton pad - then pop along to the vet so she can be checked for any foreign bodies or injury to the eye.

If her eye was fine when you OH brought her home to you, then there's no point in contacting the pet shop, but if she had a gunky eye when he brought her home then you should inform them - but make it clear you're keeping her and treating her and you don't want to hand her back.
 
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That is common in small breed dogs. The product Angel Eyes is a good treatment for that
 
The above post makes no sense (along with other posts, all seem odd) and the product mentioned is nothing like appropriate for guinea pigs - I'd disregard until the user can explain further or those posts are looked into! :{
 
It is completely normal for guinea pigs to sneeze around six times a day, but if it is a lot more than that, then there could be a problem and they will need to see a vet.

The symptoms you described sound a lot like a fungal infection. Visit http://www.guinealynx.info/fungus.html for more information.
 
poppy as a bit of cold in her eye that looks like it just needs bathing since i got her ive been bathing her eye twice aday and it looks to be clearing ive got her into vet just to make sure
 
if it is just white-ish gunk, i think this can be caused by being out in the wind (it happened to one of our girls) if so we bathed it with boiled water and a cotton pad :)
 
its a white sticky type of gunk my hubby got her from pets at home they have told me to take her to the vets and they will stump up for the vet bill as they said that they could have over looked her eye problem cant get over the fact that a shop like that would over look some thing that could make such a small little animal very ill they even offered to refund me in aggreement that i take little poppy back to the shop i told the shop like hell ill give her back to have her eye get worse or better still to have her suffer ive never come across a guinea so tame and placid she sits and allows me to clean her eyes then she goes to sleep on our laps I'm glad now my hubby got her shes priceless
 
Good on you for sticking to your guns.

A white milky fluid in the eye is normal grooming fluid, appears when they groom themselves and drains on its own, the eye can also water (a milky colour on occasion) when irritated e.g. by the wind as Becca suggested.

A sticky substance is not normal, it sounds like it could be a case of conjunctivitis.
 
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