Rosie Rabbit
Mama Doe
Hi guys :wave:
Rosie has had a few problems recently and I could do with some advice and input from you all. At the end of June we noticed her right eye was quite bloodshot. She's blind in both eyes (cataracts) and sees a specialist eye vet periodically, so we took her back for a consultation. Basically, she has developed uveitis in her right eye and has been on Maxitrol eye drops ever since.
We suspected EC and did the whole Panacur / bleach and steam clean palaver for 4 weeks. Then she began to sound a bit chesty and her eyes started leaking and I wondered if a pasteurella-type infection was to blame (as I know pasteurella can cause uveitis as well). She had a couple of penicillin shots (Ultrapen LA) and seemed to be not too bad after that. She lost some weight as well but I think that was down to pain in the eye which wasn't being wholly relived by the Maxitrol drops. I asked for Metacam for her and she has been on it now for a couple of months. Her weight stabilised and she has been pretty much fine in herself - apart from one thing.
The problem is that her right eye is leaking terribly and I am having to bathe the fur on her face thoroughly a couple of times a day. The left eye (which doesn't have uveitis but has a cataract) is leaking a bit too. Last week, she went in to the vet for a GA and x-rays to her skull and chest (as she's still a bit 'grunty') and also had her tear ducts flushed. The chest x-ray showed a couple of darker patches near the front of her lungs, but the vet said this was just an ageing thing and wasn't too concerned. Luckily, there were no teeth problems, and the roots were elongated a bit, but according to the vet, not really enough to be causing all the wetness. There was a bit of gunge in the tear ducts but not much. The wetness is just the same and hasn't improved.
She's to go back on Tuesday and the vet thinks we'll have to make a decision about whether or not to have her right eye removed as the leaking is needing a lot of management. She thinks that because of the size of her eyeball (due to the uveitis?) the tears have nowhere to go but down her face. However, this wouldn't explain why the left eye leaks a bit, although I know that some buns just have leaky eyes. Her eye vet said the uveitis has stabilised, but I don't know how long the eyeball could be left in situ without causing problems, as I'm not sure if the Maxitrol eye drops can be used long-term without causing problems in themselves. She started on 4 drops a day for the first three weeks, and has been on 2 a day ever since.
Sorry for the long post, but I would really appreciated some input and advice. :wave:
Rosie has had a few problems recently and I could do with some advice and input from you all. At the end of June we noticed her right eye was quite bloodshot. She's blind in both eyes (cataracts) and sees a specialist eye vet periodically, so we took her back for a consultation. Basically, she has developed uveitis in her right eye and has been on Maxitrol eye drops ever since.
We suspected EC and did the whole Panacur / bleach and steam clean palaver for 4 weeks. Then she began to sound a bit chesty and her eyes started leaking and I wondered if a pasteurella-type infection was to blame (as I know pasteurella can cause uveitis as well). She had a couple of penicillin shots (Ultrapen LA) and seemed to be not too bad after that. She lost some weight as well but I think that was down to pain in the eye which wasn't being wholly relived by the Maxitrol drops. I asked for Metacam for her and she has been on it now for a couple of months. Her weight stabilised and she has been pretty much fine in herself - apart from one thing.
The problem is that her right eye is leaking terribly and I am having to bathe the fur on her face thoroughly a couple of times a day. The left eye (which doesn't have uveitis but has a cataract) is leaking a bit too. Last week, she went in to the vet for a GA and x-rays to her skull and chest (as she's still a bit 'grunty') and also had her tear ducts flushed. The chest x-ray showed a couple of darker patches near the front of her lungs, but the vet said this was just an ageing thing and wasn't too concerned. Luckily, there were no teeth problems, and the roots were elongated a bit, but according to the vet, not really enough to be causing all the wetness. There was a bit of gunge in the tear ducts but not much. The wetness is just the same and hasn't improved.
She's to go back on Tuesday and the vet thinks we'll have to make a decision about whether or not to have her right eye removed as the leaking is needing a lot of management. She thinks that because of the size of her eyeball (due to the uveitis?) the tears have nowhere to go but down her face. However, this wouldn't explain why the left eye leaks a bit, although I know that some buns just have leaky eyes. Her eye vet said the uveitis has stabilised, but I don't know how long the eyeball could be left in situ without causing problems, as I'm not sure if the Maxitrol eye drops can be used long-term without causing problems in themselves. She started on 4 drops a day for the first three weeks, and has been on 2 a day ever since.
Sorry for the long post, but I would really appreciated some input and advice. :wave:
