Hiay Minilops
Buffy is a mini lop - talking to my Vet she says teeth problems together with Gut Statis are by far the most regular problems she sees in bunnies.
With Buffy it has always been just the one eye - and on occassions when it has been really bad she has had a little nasal discharge too. I think I've become used the problem now as its been going on for almost a year and she really was quite poorly at one stage, it used to take me over an hour each morning to bathe her eye to remove all the dried discharge and it was so sore for her - it was heartbreaking to see her.
Since last June she has varied between having to have her eye flushed once a week to now which is now approx every three weeks unless anything flairs up inbetween.
One thing my Vet does when she does the flush is - she will do the first flush normally which normally results in some gunk washing trhough and coming out of buffs nose (sorry Claire hope you've had breakfast!!) -
and then she pops a flush through of "chloromycetin" which you can get in both ointment form and also liquid.
After the flush we use the Chloromycetin Liquid drops for 48 hours and then we swop back over to the ointment.
I personally think Chloromycetin works better than Fucithalmic as its not so sticky - but every bunny is different and what works for one doesnt work for another :roll: - also my vet ays this cream can be used in conjunction with Tiacil - so sometimes I swop between the two.
She has been on as many as four lots of Chlormycetin a day but now were down to just morning and evening.
Buffs eye is done every morning and night and inbetween if necessary - as shes a house bun is easy for me to notice when I'm walking past her if there is any discharge that needs wiping, main thing for me has been to keep her eye as dry as possible and clean so shes comfortable.
Claire - have you tried bringing Humprey indoors for a few nights if you feel it might be allergy based to see if there is any improvement - praps take him out of his hutch environment just as an experiment to see if there is anything he is reacting to - you could pop him on some completely different bedding such as Vetbed for a few nights - just a thought - us Bunny Eye Nurses will try just about anything new eh
Hope this helps Claire.