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Tear Ducts

whitehood

whitehood

Warren Veteran
Lucky's tear ducts were blocked, my vet gave me Tiacil to drop once in both eyes twice daily, the Tiacil would travel to the nose from the eyes.
I haven't heard him sneeze at all since I stopped giving the Tiacil [5 days]

But if he starts sneezing again what could be advisable to give to clear his nose passage way?
 
Tear duct flush by the vet?

Nebulisation?

Stronger abx?

Did you ever have the C&S done?
 
I didn't have the C&S test done because my vet thought it wasn't snuffles and thought it was teeth problems.
When checking his teeth he needed a dental so we had that done, then he started sneezing again so my vet tested to see if his tear ducts were blocked.

The Tiacil was given to clear the tear ducts as they were blocked that prevented the dye inserted into his eye not coming out.

What's flushing ?
 
whitehood said:
I didn't have the C&S test done because my vet thought it wasn't snuffles and thought it was teeth problems.
When checking his teeth he needed a dental so we had that done, then he started sneezing again so my vet tested to see if his tear ducts were blocked.

The Tiacil was given to clear the tear ducts as they were blocked that prevented the dye inserted into his eye not coming out.

What's flushing ?
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Okay, so if the vet thought it was teeth problems, have yuo had xrays done to confirm/dismay this? That'd confirm whether you needed to keep trying different treatments or if it's something you'll have to live with and just keep him comfortable.

Just as an example, Ginger can't have her tear ducts flushed, as the entrance to her tear ducts are deformed and instead of little holes, she has tiny little tissue masses instead, which makes life interesting.

The flushing is when they put a tiny little needle into the tear duct and flush it through with liquid (normally sterile water) pushing any nasty horrible gunky stuff out.
 
I too think I would flush the tearducts and also get a skull x-ray too, to be honest.

A tear duct flush involves sort of rinsing out the tear ducts to remove any material in there that is clogging them up (they managed to get a long white worm-like length of pussy stuff out of my Star's tear duct a few years ago :lol: my vet marvelled at it for ages).
 
I haven't had x rays done either, but if he sneezes again I'll have to mention x rays to my vets.
Does flushing once solve sneezing problems ?


Sky-O said:
I too think I would flush the tearducts and also get a skull x-ray too, to be honest.

A tear duct flush involves sort of rinsing out the tear ducts to remove any material in there that is clogging them up (they managed to get a long white worm-like length of pussy stuff out of my Star's tear duct a few years ago :lol: my vet marvelled at it for ages).
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Thanks, did the flushing solve Star's tear duct problem ? Did Star used to sneeze?
 
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