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3rd eyelid - am I being paranoid?

B

bunny babe

Wise Old Thumper
Further to my recent thread we have been monitoring Homer closely.

http://forums.rabbitrehome.org.uk/showthread.php?327132-Cloudy-Eye-u-d-cataract-or-trauma

Basically Homer has been fine in himself, eating, pooping etc. There does not appear to have been any change in his eye e.g. discharge, enlarged eyeball. It is still cloudy but does not appear to be any more cloudy than when we noticed a week ago.

When he was eating his cabbage tonight I noticed that his 3rd eyelid was showing in both eyes but when he stopped eating it went OK. I thought I saw this Sat morning but the light was not good so could not be 100% sure. Am I being paranoid or could there be something underlying.

I have tried to look 3rd eyelid up on here but a lot of the threads are blank (guess it is because it crashed last week).

He is due a dental probably within the next couple of weeks, are there any other tests I should ask our vet to carry out?
 
It could be tooth root related. Pressure from elongated tooth roots causing bulging of the eyeball and thus the increased visibility of the third eyelid when he is eating -ie creating direct pressure on his teeth/roots

When was his last skull Xray and does he have his molars burred right down to gum level or does your Vet just take off the spurs ? If the latter, then TRE is not going to be managed efficiently. Whilst TRE is a progressive feature of Dental Disease the rate of that progression can be minimised by regular thorough Dentals under GA to burr the crowns down to gum level and to reshape them to provide the best possible occlusal surface.

There is some info about TRE on here

http://www.medirabbit.com/EN/Dental_diseases/Differential/Rabbit_dentistry.pdf
 
Thanks Jane. Homer is a dental bunny and does have elongated roots. His last x-ray was a couple of years ago I think. He has had dentals under GA every 6-10 weeks in the last year but not 100% sure what they do. I know they are very "uneven" and do get spurs and they get "levelled" but not sure how low.

I am taking wild thing (Katy) on Fri for her VHD so will ask then and maybe get him booked in for his dental early next week with a skull x-ray.
 
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