Jenova
Wise Old Thumper
Why won't it just go away? 
I think Grim's eye infections are related to his snuffles. He also has blocked tear ducts which makes them a lot more likely to happen.
Anyway for those who don't know they played up about a month and a half ago and were atrocious. I was massaging about a marble sized amount of puss out of his left eye twice a day and his right eye is really ulcerated. He can't have steroid eye drops, I think because of the ulceration, but I can't remember exactly what my vet said. He was put on chloramphenicol eye ointment four times a day, anti inflammatory eye drops once a day and pain relief/anti inflammatory. He was having his normal baytril every day and penicillin injections every three days and on top of that he was also having metronidazole for two weeks. His eyes cleared up really well. He had a dental and his eyes were flushed as well.
He stayed on the baytril and penicillin as he's probably on these for life and although his eyes looked clear I still gave him the chloramphenicol once a day. On Sunday my friend called me to have a look at him. Literally in a few hours over the course of the day his eyes looked like they had erupted. There was a lot of puss. I've been cleaning his eyes four times a day and putting in the ointment and giving him the drops once a day. I've put him back on pain relief as his eyes look swollen again. I think the next step is to ring my vet and I assume she will want him back on the metronidazole as it worked so well the last time.
I have no idea why his eyes suddenly became so bad again. It could be the weather. Last time they played up the weather suddenly went really wet as it has done now. The other changes are his dose of baytril each day has been doubled, although I would expect that to have the opposite effect? And I have been feeding him separately from Smoo. She needs a diet anyway and Grim has just stopped eating rabbit pellets and will only eat chinchilla pellets which give Smoo a runny bum so I've been feeding him every few hours with chinchilla pellets, sometimes oats and bread with his baytril on. It does mean he's been going a little longer at night without food. Today I had to be in university so I was out for ten hours. I left enough rabbit food out for both of them but when I got back it hadn't been touched enough for him to have eaten a good amount. He was also hiding in the carry case. I offered him the food and he did eat some.
I think he felt safer in there. When his eyes are bad I think he's totally blind. He bumps into everything and is really disorientated. It's quite sad, my housemate said he's in the carry case saying take me to the vets.
Now I've written an essay does anyone have any ideas what might be causing the infections or how to stop them? They're causing him alot of discomfort. The only other idea I have is that a few winters ago his eyes were really bad inside and I had to put him outside into the cold. This helped him so much but if I did that now they'd be stuck in the hutch due to the rain. I'm going to try opening my window for them. It's very low down so I'm going to put a baby gate over the window first to make it safe.
It's really upsetting to see him like this.
I've just been told he's lying flat out by my bedroom door with his legs out.
Maybe I'm worrying too much?
I think Grim's eye infections are related to his snuffles. He also has blocked tear ducts which makes them a lot more likely to happen.
Anyway for those who don't know they played up about a month and a half ago and were atrocious. I was massaging about a marble sized amount of puss out of his left eye twice a day and his right eye is really ulcerated. He can't have steroid eye drops, I think because of the ulceration, but I can't remember exactly what my vet said. He was put on chloramphenicol eye ointment four times a day, anti inflammatory eye drops once a day and pain relief/anti inflammatory. He was having his normal baytril every day and penicillin injections every three days and on top of that he was also having metronidazole for two weeks. His eyes cleared up really well. He had a dental and his eyes were flushed as well.
He stayed on the baytril and penicillin as he's probably on these for life and although his eyes looked clear I still gave him the chloramphenicol once a day. On Sunday my friend called me to have a look at him. Literally in a few hours over the course of the day his eyes looked like they had erupted. There was a lot of puss. I've been cleaning his eyes four times a day and putting in the ointment and giving him the drops once a day. I've put him back on pain relief as his eyes look swollen again. I think the next step is to ring my vet and I assume she will want him back on the metronidazole as it worked so well the last time.
I have no idea why his eyes suddenly became so bad again. It could be the weather. Last time they played up the weather suddenly went really wet as it has done now. The other changes are his dose of baytril each day has been doubled, although I would expect that to have the opposite effect? And I have been feeding him separately from Smoo. She needs a diet anyway and Grim has just stopped eating rabbit pellets and will only eat chinchilla pellets which give Smoo a runny bum so I've been feeding him every few hours with chinchilla pellets, sometimes oats and bread with his baytril on. It does mean he's been going a little longer at night without food. Today I had to be in university so I was out for ten hours. I left enough rabbit food out for both of them but when I got back it hadn't been touched enough for him to have eaten a good amount. He was also hiding in the carry case. I offered him the food and he did eat some.
I think he felt safer in there. When his eyes are bad I think he's totally blind.
He bumps into everything and is really disorientated. It's quite sad, my housemate said he's in the carry case saying take me to the vets. Now I've written an essay does anyone have any ideas what might be causing the infections or how to stop them? They're causing him alot of discomfort. The only other idea I have is that a few winters ago his eyes were really bad inside and I had to put him outside into the cold. This helped him so much but if I did that now they'd be stuck in the hutch due to the rain. I'm going to try opening my window for them. It's very low down so I'm going to put a baby gate over the window first to make it safe.
It's really upsetting to see him like this.
I've just been told he's lying flat out by my bedroom door with his legs out.
Maybe I'm worrying too much?
