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babies eyes

sally1974

sally1974

Wise Old Thumper
Hi, its day 12 for the babies and out of the 6 of them one has opened one eye and the rest are still all shut. I have been told that sometimes the babies need help opening their eyes my question is when do I intervene? If I do need to help them what do I use? Many thanks.
Sally x
 
I am no expert but I would think you need to bathe the kits eyes with cooled boiled water to try to get them to open.
Hopefully someone more experienced with kits will be along soon to correct me if I am wrong

Janex
 
Hi, Jane, thats what I thought as well but I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure when to do it. One of the kits just has one eye open so I guess I should try it soon, I just dont know whether to do all of them yet or leave them.
Sally x
 
I have read that they need to be opened by day 14 else they can have permenant eye problems. I opened three of ours on day 14 (most only had one eye open) using cotton buds dipped in warm water to gently loosen the lids and carfully open them once the wayter had soaked the residue away.
 
I would give it another couple of days, when the majority have one or both eyes open that is when you need to be sure the others are open too. Cooled boiled water and an earbud is fine, make the eye quite wet and once it soaks in a little you will be able to gently ease them open. You might have to repeat for a few days.

Louisa
 
I went ahead and gently used cooled boiled water and a cotton bud, all eyes are now open. I will put some pics on later.
Sally x
 
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