Poorly Eye

[GinaG]

I’m so worried about my poor Sooty. She was fine this morning but tonight her eye is like this she’s eating fine, has been happily playing in her run all day. She’s sat on my lap eating treats now and keeps closing that eye and seems a little sorry for herself but otherwise seems ok. But her eye looks so sore, it looks bloodshot and milky. I can’t see any sign of trauma. I’ll get her to the vet first thing but had anyone seen anything like this before? Any idea what it might be?And what I can do to make her comfortable?

 

[Merab]

Glad you’re going to the vet.
It may be something simple like haypoke which can be cleared by eye drops but only a vet can diagnose the problem.
Hope it’s all ok,
Let us know what happens

 

[pig in the city]

Have a careful look under her eyelids to see if there is any hay trapped that you can get out with a damp cotton bud. Bathe her eye with optrex and give her a dose of metacam if you have some. Pop her to the vets in the morning for a check. She will probably need antibiotic drops. The eye heals quickly in most cases

 

[Wiebke]

Good that you are seeing a vet. The eye is ulcerated (the blue film). the sooner it can be treated, the better. It can be just some scratchy hay stuck under a lid or a hay poke that causes it. Since eye injuries can deteriorate quickly, it is important to have any eye injury seen by a vet as soon as you can. They can assess the damage with a special dye in ultraviolet light.

Thankfully, eye injuries will heal pretty quickly and without complications when you catch them early enough.

 

[Betsy]

A while ago Christian had a deep eye ulcer and a shallow one in the same eye Ouch! The vet gave his eye a really good clean out with saline and then put local anaesthetic in his eye so she could get a cotton bud in there too. Then she gave me Isathal drops to pop in it twice a day and was so worried about it that she wanted to see him again in 3 days rather than the usual week later. The eye was completely healed in 3 days and the vet was amazed at how quickly the eye had healed up.

 

[piggieminder]

Poor Sooty. I've been to the vet today with Peanut, (brown piggy in avatar) his eye is like that. I removed a piece of hay from his eye last night. He has eye drops and Metacam for 5 days and then he will be reviewed. Good luck at the vets tomorrow and love and hugs to Sooty from me and Peanut.