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I'm Worried About My Guinea Pig's Eye! Help!

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My Guinea pig, Navi, is around 5-6 months old. I woke up yesterday and I noticed that her left eye seems squinty, and the waterline is red.. She isn't showing any signs of pain or any infections of some sort.. She is acting perfectly normal. The only thing wrong is her eye.. Should I take her to an exotic vet? Or will her eye heal? By the way, her eyes are naturally red.. Her waterline is just really red and it isn't normally..
 
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Hello, welcome to the forum. Definitely a vet visit could be an infection or hay poke. Their vet will pop some dye in her eye and look at it with a light. Expect antibiotic eye drops, possible oral antibiotics and pain relief

Here is a link to vets in your area off guinea lynx (checked your IP) Veterinarians: Arizona - Guinea Lynx Records
 
Good luck with the vet - your piggie is lovely (despite the red eye).
I had a similar thing with one of mine when he was about the same age.
There were no signs of a scratch or hay poke, but just to be sure the vet put him on a course of antibiotic eye drops.
It cleared up really quickly, and I think if you get things seen to early they don't escalated into bigger problems.
 
It does look irritated... probably worth a check to see if there's an injury or an infection. Some antibiotic drops may be needed. Hope it heals up soon!
 
Best get her to the vet asap, you can't leave it in case she goes blind.
Hi & Welcome to our friendly forum.
 
Update: I got eye drops, and two different types of syrup. Crazy thing, navi is a boy! Him and my other pig are separated until he gets neutered. Also, Navi's eye already looks way better! Horray! Turns out he just had an eye infection. He will get neutered in six days, Tuesday. :)
 
Well done for getting him to the vet and getting his eye sorted. The treatments usually work well within a couple of days.
How long was he with together your little sow? Is there a chance that she could have been impregnated?
 
Glad the eye was an easy fix- what a shock on the gender, though! Are you sure your other pig is a sow before the neuter operation goes forward? How long were the two of them together?
 
Freela said:
Glad the eye was an easy fix- what a shock on the gender, though! Are you sure your other pig is a sow before the neuter operation goes forward? How long were the two of them together?
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They have been together for about a week. They are now seperated, and the neuter was done today. Everything went great. The vet also told me that she's too young for babies, no worries.
 
VickiA said:
Well done for getting him to the vet and getting his eye sorted. The treatments usually work well within a couple of days.
How long was he with together your little sow? Is there a chance that she could have been impregnated?
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She's not pregnant, the vet told me. :)
 
Swissgreys said:
Did the vet examine her?
I an not sure how he can be 100% certain that she is not pregnant.
Obviously fingers crossed that she isn't, but I don't understand how the vet could say for sure?
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Well, no, but they told me that she's too young. So, it's physically impossible.. Right?
 
Swissgreys said:
Do you know how old she is exactly - as in what week she was born in?
Where did you get her from?
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She was born March 13th of this year. I separated them a week ago, and I got her from a family who had 4 babies they couldn't take care of.
 
That's really helpful.
So they were separated when she was just over 4 weeks old then?
Hopefully she isn't pregnant, but I do believe that females can get pregnant anytime after 4 weeks of age, so she is right on the edge of it being a possibility.
But I am not an expert.
I'll tag @Wiebke for you because she has loads of experience and will be able to give you a definite answer.
 
Swissgreys said:
That's really helpful.
So they were separated when she was just over 4 weeks old then?
Hopefully she isn't pregnant, but I do believe that females can get pregnant anytime after 4 weeks of age, so she is right on the edge of it being a possibility.
But I am not an expert.
I'll tag @Wiebke for you because she has loads of experience and will be able to give you a definite answer.
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Hi! Sows have their first season between 4-6 weeks of age, so she is right on the cusp of that, and there is a chance that she could be pregnant; if she was close to her first season, the presence of boar hormones could have triggered one. You are welcome to open a support thread in our pregnancy section for any questions and updates and read our guides at the top, so you know what to look our for.
https://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/forums/pregnancy-baby-care-and-sexing-no-breeding.11/

Apart from putting your little girl on a good, balanced diet with lots of different nutrients and NOT overfeeding her on pellets (about 40g per day is fine), there is not much else you need to do for now. The healthier and fitter mommy is, the healthier and fitter any pups - that is the most important aspect; but you do want to have ideal sized babies for a smooth birth, not big whoppers that can get stuck during birth. Incidentally, your little girl will profit anyway!
https://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/forums/pregnancy-baby-care-and-sexing-no-breeding.11/
Recommendations For A Balanced General Guinea Pig Diet

Any SMALL tweaks to her diet during the last quarter of any pregnancy are there to bolster her body, but do not be tempted to overdo it. With a good general diet, most needs are actually already taken care of.
Online advice has got somewhat out of hand as everybody has over time upped the recommendations trying to do the very best for their piggy, and incidentally achieving the opposite by losing sight of the fact hat pregnant mums need the whole package when it comes to nutrition, not just a few extras! The temptation to overdo any extras is just too great for many worried owners. :(
If she is pregnant, you should know in about 6-8 weeks, when her pregnancy will become obvious; that is also the time when you can start supplementing.
You also have to wait until any baby skeletons have calcium in their bones to get a reliable scan result, which is again around 6-7 weeks from now if you want confirmation that way.
Until then, I would concentrate on keeping your girl healthy and happy. Please make sure that she is correctly sexed. https://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/threads/sexing-separating-baby-boars-and-rehoming-babies.109391/

All the best for a smooth recovery of your boy! Good that you did have the eye seen promptly before it could get worse and ulcerate visibly. Eye injuries can deteriorate very quickly, with the damage not yet visible in normal light and without a special dye. Thankfully, with the right treatment, eye injuries also tend to heal pretty quickly and smoothly.
Here are our post-op care tips: Tips For Post-operative Care

Please be aware that the little baby in my avatar, my Tegan, is the surprise legacy of a supposedly safe over 5 weeks post neutering op boar (not one of mine), just to prove the point that while rare, it can really happen as late as that! I have since heard of more cases. Good British rescues all practise now a 6 weeks cut-off for introducing neutered boars to sows, and there haven't been any reports of pregnancies for years now, despite several hundred boars being neutered in the meantime. If there were, it would make the rounds like wildfire! This is why we are following the practise of recommending a full 6 weeks post-op wait. Until then, you can keep your two piggies side by side with interaction through the bars, so they are not lonely or depressed and their bond will not be broken.
 
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