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Urgent - Worried about hay in eye

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Hi Girls, Maggie has a bit of hay in her eye? What should I do?
leave well alone? drip water in?
thank you!
 
Flush it out, with water if you can or quite often you can gently get it out with a finger. If the hay has poked her eye, the eye may go a bit cloudy but this is fairly normal while it's healing

I've used optrex before and it's fine, or just plain ol' water!

Sophie
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Has she had it in her eye long? Is there any discharge in the eye? My piggies used to sometimes get hay in their eyes but it usually came out. Don't know if this is what is recomended but I would sometimes blow just very gently near the piggies face and they would blink. If I did it a few times they would usually blink it out unless it was stuck down the side. If you are using dusty hay or the bottom of the pile that might not help. The pigs I have now have never got hay in their eyes that I know about and that might be because of the hay I get and I often fluff the hay so the dusty bits float away. I'm sure she will be ok :) Rachel
 
If there is any resistance when you pull the hay, don't force it - a piece of hay/seed that is truly stuck needs a vet to anesthetise the eye surface and remove it steadily with blunt-ended tweezers.

If it's just floating on the surface of the eye, flushing it with plain water should do the job!
 
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Thank you all so much. I "think" I flushed it out with some water...I will keep an eye on my little leader Maggie 8...
XX amber
 
guinea pigs will produce a substance from their eyes while grooming which clears the eyes. their inner eye is also protected by a lens, unless i'm mistaken. i've never interfered with any of my pigs if they have something in their eye unless it's obviously irritating them or causing them pain. you may end up causing them more harm by touching something so fragile.
 
A piece of barbed hay will not usually be shed from the eye without assistance.. I have removed pieces of hay upto 1.5cm from under the upper eyelid.
Contrary to what you would expect it is very easy to miss even such a long piece of hay when it is trapped under the lid.
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^ i just meant when it's on the eye. did they mean actually inside it? i've never had any of my pigs get this so i might have misread the original post.
 
Dizzy has so far managed to wedge one full blade of grass and one 4cm long bit of soft hay under her eye lid. I'm waiting for what comes next...
 
I removed a piece of 2cm long hay from Amber's eye last night and she's now on fucilthalmic ointment to heal the scratch.
 
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