Eye filled with blood

Anyone had this before in a rabbit. My vets are completely stumped as they've never seen anything like it before. Once Willow is stronger we will look into seeing a specialist but wondered if anyone had any ideas?

Where in the eye exactly ?

The actual eye itself I guess. The lens glowed red in the sun and when the vets looked at it they said the red was a build up of blood. There is no discharge from they eye but she is blind in it and keeps it partially closed most of the time.

I thought it was probably root related (she's just had a dental) or the other suggestion was EC related (we are treating her just incase the weight loss was not just a result of teeth).

The vets have sent pics and info off to Richard Saunders so hopefully he'll be able to offer some advice.

They are talking about possible removal if it cannot be treated - has anyone had this done to a bunny before?

Amy104 said:

The vets have sent pics and info off to Richard Saunders so hopefully he'll be able to offer some advice.

They are talking about possible removal if it cannot be treated - has anyone had this done to a bunny before?

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I didn't have it done, but one of Thumper's tooth roots was was beginning to work through the eye socket, & Marie felt that removal of the eye might be necessary in the future because of the pain from pressure on the eye.

It helped me to remember that for a bunny eyesight is less important than for us who rely so heavily on it. eg did you know that our buns recognise us by our smell not by sight? did you know that they find their way around by an "internal map" of their surroundings & a perfectly sighted bun can run smack into an obvious object put in a different place occasionally?They can't even see what they eat! It's smell, whiskers, & lips to find their food! Unlike us, buns mainly use smell & hearing, & even vibration sensed through their feet, to negotiate the world.
For them there's only a very small area of focussed 3 D vision. Yes, they have a huge visual field but it's more like what we see at the sides -(peripheral vision)

I would think that there are other causes of bleeding into the eye itself. The big problem is pain from increased pressure either from the blood or because the fluid can't circulate properly in the eye after the bleed (glaucoma)

Thank you. I'm not so much worried about the sight issue as she is already blind in it, but didn't know how big an op it would be for her. She caused a few probs under GA for her dental so we'd need to get her weight up and her health a bit better before I'd want to try another GA.

I'm sorry that I can't help with factual knowledge on how long it would take etc.
Just a tipfor weight gain in buns. quite a few people now have found that by using protaxin fibre pellets or a few safe tree leaves in with their hay eg brambles improves their appetite!

Thats ok, its reasurring to know its not unheard of in buns.

She's already on the profibre pellets and fortunately she loves them. Will try and get some bramble leaves to mix with her hay.

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I didn't have it done, but one of Thumper's tooth roots was was beginning to work through the eye socket, & Marie felt that removal of the eye might be necessary in the future because of the pain from pressure on the eye.

It helped me to remember that for a bunny eyesight is less important than for us who rely so heavily on it. eg did you know that our buns recognise us by our smell not by sight? did you know that they find their way around by an "internal map" of their surroundings & a perfectly sighted bun can run smack into an obvious object put in a different place occasionally?They can't even see what they eat! It's smell, whiskers, & lips to find their food! Unlike us, buns mainly use smell & hearing, & even vibration sensed through their feet, to negotiate the world.
For them there's only a very small area of focussed 3 D vision. Yes, they have a huge visual field but it's more like what we see at the sides -(peripheral vision)

I would think that there are other causes of bleeding into the eye itself. The big problem is pain from increased pressure either from the blood or because the fluid can't circulate properly in the eye after the bleed (glaucoma)

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This is why my buns sometimes run smack into a gate in the garden! Its open most of the time but occasionally i close it and its just got wire mesh in the centre but when the rabbits hear me they open the back doorthey come running towards the house then SMACK right into the gate like they are not even looking!

I don't know about the blood thing, but Dexter had an abcess in his eye and had to have it removed.
He took a couple of days to recover post op but that was almost a year ago and he copes really really well without it

thumps_ said:

I didn't have it done, but one of Thumper's tooth roots was was beginning to work through the eye socket, & Marie felt that removal of the eye might be necessary in the future because of the pain from pressure on the eye.

It helped me to remember that for a bunny eyesight is less important than for us who rely so heavily on it. eg did you know that our buns recognise us by our smell not by sight? did you know that they find their way around by an "internal map" of their surroundings & a perfectly sighted bun can run smack into an obvious object put in a different place occasionally?They can't even see what they eat! It's smell, whiskers, & lips to find their food! Unlike us, buns mainly use smell & hearing, & even vibration sensed through their feet, to negotiate the world.
For them there's only a very small area of focussed 3 D vision. Yes, they have a huge visual field but it's more like what we see at the sides -(peripheral vision)

I would think that there are other causes of bleeding into the eye itself. The big problem is pain from increased pressure either from the blood or because the fluid can't circulate properly in the eye after the bleed (glaucoma)

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this explains alot!

I don't know about the blood thing, but Dexter had an abcess in his eye and had to have it removed.
He took a couple of days to recover post op but that was almost a year ago and he copes really really well without it

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Thank you thats positive news.