Hyperplastic tissue in eye

[susiewoosie]

Hi All

For the past 3 months, my little minnie has had a sore eye. One eye, in the bottom corner, it looks like red tissue slightly swollen. I took her to the vet who gave her eye drops for 2 weeks. The swelling went down and it became less sore looking and minimised slightly. when you pull her eye lid down, the tissue is is under the lid. The vet said it was the third eye lid and that it was overgrown tissue. this doesn't seem to bother her, but i feel sometimes it gets bigger maybe when she is tired. The vet said he could remove this, but i am not sure about this. Has anyone else experienced anything like this. will try to get picture tomorrow. Apart from the eye, she is fine, eats well and is as grumpy as usual.

S

 

[susiewoosie]

pics of sore eye

 

[Pebble]

Bandit has just had some of his third eyelid removed for biopsy.

The symptoms initally started with his eye milk not draining away and a blocked tear duct/infection was suspected. We treated first with fucithlamic. then tiacil eye drops (gentamycin) and then with chlorampehnicol eye drops with an anti-inflammatory eye drop. No improvement - in fact it was getting worse and more red in colour. I was also flushing his eye with sterile saline solution each day.

The biopsy came back that the eyelid had nodules of lymphocytic material and sadly this can mean an underlying lymphoma. His next step is steroid eye drops - but only after he has had the culture results back as negative for chlamydia and mycoplasma as you cannt give steroids (which are immunosuppressive) if there is any infection present.

If there is no interference with the eye/tear ducts/eye milk etc then it might not be worth having some of the eyelid removed. If it enlarges any further (which it might do) you may have to consider having it removed in which case I would recommned it is sent away for histopathology so you actually know what you;re dealing with.

Is the vet sure it is the third eyelid and not one of the lachrymal glands in the third eyelid causing the problem? Here is a link to eye porblems including "cherry eye" on the US guinea pig website which you night find useful.

http://www.guinealynx.info/eyes.html#pea

I'm sorry I cant be of more help - just keep monitoring for irritation/dryness/eye milk not draining away properly.

HTH
x

 

[susiewoosie]

Thank you very much Pebble... any info is helpful. I have looked at cherry eye, pea eye etc. I did say to the vet about pea eye and he kind of poo pood the idea. since she is quite small and young, i am going to continue to monitor and it does look like cherry eye. There is not a lot of info re: guinea pigs on this but in comparison with dogs and rabbits, it does seem quite familiar. Minnie is quite comfortable with me looking and touching it which tells me that it is not painful. Think i will bathe in cold tea and monitor...oh dear, worry worry worry...also friend just told me today, her older male had something similar which was quite harmless.

thanks again..susie

 

[fluff]

its a condition called fatty eye which some breeds are more prone to than others, sometimes overweight pigs get it and its heiredary.
just leave it be

 

[Pebble]

its a condition called fatty eye which some breeds are more prone to than others, sometimes overweight pigs get it and its heiredary.
just leave it be

I'm sorry but we are not talking about fatty eye (or pea eye) as it is sometimes called- that is a completely different condition to what is being discussed here.

 

[susiewoosie]

Thank you fluff, but the vet dismissed this as it was quite inflammed and very red..i thought this to begin with and was kinda hoping it was as it is quite harmless, but because it looks quite raw and sore, it makes me worry. i am going to monitor this longer and bathe in cold tea (anti-inflammatory properties)...

Thank you for your input Fluff, all is welcome..

susie

 

[piggie-power]

This looks very similar to something called cherry eye.

Personally i would choose to have it removed, especially if it looks sore or if it keeps increasing in size. I would have a long chat with your vet about the operation as that could help ease your worries.

Good luck hon x