Potentially Bad Hay Eye Poke

[WWDrew]

I woke up this morning to say good morning to find Lucy got a Hay Poke over night.

Her eye is already cloudy this morning and it’s when I flip her eyelid it’s super soar and the back of her eye when if flip her eye lid looks bad as well.

I usually catch hay pokes quickly and remove the hay and everything is fine.

I’ve been trying to get her the usual eye creams or drop but I’ve been lucky in the past because now I need a prescription for these antibiotic drops and creams at the pharmacy and Amazon. I’m in Canada.

I’ve been trying to use distilled water to flush out anything with a medical bulb.

They’re no vets available on Sundays and will try to get in tomorrow.

Thanks,

WWDrew

 

[Betsy]

Ouch! Is it possible to get Lucy to vet? It doesn't have to be a guinea pig specialist as eyes are all the same. Hope her eye clears up quickly. Let us know how you get on.

 

[Wiebke]

I woke up this morning to say good morning to find Lucy got a Hay Poke over night.

Her eye is already cloudy this morning and it’s when I flip her eyelid it’s super soar and the back of her eye when if flip her eye lid looks bad as well.

I usually catch hay pokes quickly and remove the hay and everything is fine.

I’ve been trying to get her the usual eye creams or drop but I’ve been lucky in the past because now I need a prescription for these antibiotic drops and creams at the pharmacy and Amazon. I’m in Canada.

I’ve been trying to use distilled water to flush out anything with a medical bulb.

They’re no vets available on Sundays and will try to get in tomorrow.

Thanks,

WWDrew

Hi

I am very sorry. I hope that you can get her into the vets today. Any vet that will guinea pigs will do. Eye treatment and medication is the same as with dogs and cats. Eyes are the one part of the body where being able to see vet as quickly as possible comes before seeing a specialist.
First Aid: Immediate Care Measures and Non-medication Products

What you can do in the interim is to try to keep the eye hydrated by ideally using some plain (human) eye gel, which is the more effective one, or if you can't get one, plain eye drops. The gel you can apply up to 3 times a day, the drops up to 6 times in 24 hours.

Fingers firmly crossed.

PS: Unfortunately, wide-spread uncontrolled use of antibiotics is contributing to a rise in resistancies. We currently see it especially with respiratory infections when it comes to guinea pigs.
Here in the UK, only vets have been allowed to dispense antibiotics and other POMs (prescription-only medications) for quite a number of years; which is how we have got our moniker of being the 'see a vet' forum. But we have to comply with the regulations of the country in which our forum is located.

 

[Claire W]

Poor Lucy Please do try and have her seen today, any vet will be fine for an eye injury, it doesn’t have to be a specialist / exotic vet x

 

[Gadzy]

Try and get to a vet, I was thinking of doing all sorts recently with mine because I was worried and inpatient and I don’t think it was even a full blown hay poke. As others have said the vets will get you in same day if not on a weekend! Also best wishes it gets fixed

 

[WWDrew]

Lucy was seen by an exotic vet. They put the dye in her eyes to see any scratches. The hay just really irritated her eyes and she’s on antibiotic eye drops twice a day for a week.

Lucy’s teeth and molars are nice and worn down by hay like they’re supposed to be. Which is awesome to know.

 

[Gadzy]

Lucy was seen by an exotic vet. They put the dye in her eyes to see any scratches. The hay just really irritated her eyes and she’s on antibiotic eye drops twice a day for a week.

Lucy’s teeth and molars are nice and worn down by hay like they’re supposed to be. Which is awesome to know.

Could be similar to what I have just had, don’t think anything was penetrated, but the tiny fibres that were in her eye (which were flushed out) irritated it. Time will tell in a weeks time if that’s the case. What will be will be … I’m about to write a thread of something I bought (tube) which could be flawed which is what caused something to go in her eye. Anyway, glad your all sorted take care

 

[Merab]

Hope the eye heals quickly.
Glad you were able to get her seen so promptly

 

[Wiebke]

Lucy was seen by an exotic vet. They put the dye in her eyes to see any scratches. The hay just really irritated her eyes and she’s on antibiotic eye drops twice a day for a week.

Lucy’s teeth and molars are nice and worn down by hay like they’re supposed to be. Which is awesome to know.

Glad that it is just some scratching on the surface of the cornea but no perforation. Either can get infected but scratches heal more quickly.

All the best for a smooth recovery.