I adopted my lop eared bun Smithy in March this year. He had a runny eye but it never got worse or better so I never bothered to look into it further.
About 3-4 weeks ago I took him for his Myxi Jab and ever since then his eye (only one side) flared up terribly and has huge amounts of white puss coming out of it. The vet has checked his teeth and it is not that. He has an ifected tear duct and now has an abbsess, his eye ball appears to be being pushed back in his head rather than outwards, contrary to what I've found on the net about eye abbcesses!
Anyway, he's on his 3rd lot of Baytril antibiotics, 3rd lot of metacam (for cats) and I'm putting eye drops in twice a day too as well as cleaning away and squeezing out as much puss as I can. He's had his eye flushed out about 5 times by the vets, only once was this a full flush (where the liquid came out of his nose). Everytime I take him for this his eye end up looking so sore and enflamed, I hate seeing him like that!
The vet said an alternative would be to have his eye surgically removed which I wouldn't mind but the op she said would be £200! I just can't afford that, I can't afford the repeat trips to the vets where nothing seems to be getting any better either.
Somebody please help! I don't know what to do for the best! The vet wanted him in again this week for another flush but I'm not going to take him as it seems to do more harm than good!
Please help poor smithy!
Becky
About 3-4 weeks ago I took him for his Myxi Jab and ever since then his eye (only one side) flared up terribly and has huge amounts of white puss coming out of it. The vet has checked his teeth and it is not that. He has an ifected tear duct and now has an abbsess, his eye ball appears to be being pushed back in his head rather than outwards, contrary to what I've found on the net about eye abbcesses!
Anyway, he's on his 3rd lot of Baytril antibiotics, 3rd lot of metacam (for cats) and I'm putting eye drops in twice a day too as well as cleaning away and squeezing out as much puss as I can. He's had his eye flushed out about 5 times by the vets, only once was this a full flush (where the liquid came out of his nose). Everytime I take him for this his eye end up looking so sore and enflamed, I hate seeing him like that!
The vet said an alternative would be to have his eye surgically removed which I wouldn't mind but the op she said would be £200! I just can't afford that, I can't afford the repeat trips to the vets where nothing seems to be getting any better either.
Somebody please help! I don't know what to do for the best! The vet wanted him in again this week for another flush but I'm not going to take him as it seems to do more harm than good!
Please help poor smithy!
Becky