HELP!

[catherine]

oh alrite then...oh gawd the VET  thanks again il keep an eye on him   

[Pinkbear (Julie)]

Yep, always a good policy to clean mucky eyes... but also if it gets too often or too severe he really does need to see the V-E-T.  There are many causes of recurring eye inflammations and you need to rule out things which require direct action and specialist treatments. 

[catherine]

"eye on the situation" lol yeah i got it  haha
ok il keep that in mind then thanks  so everytime it flares up and becomes sticky i should clean it?

[Pinkbear (Julie)]

In the meantime, could you bathe it with boiled then cooled salt water?

No salt, Mark. It only serves to aggrevate the eye further and speed up mucus production. Plain warm water is best. 

  Thanks Julie.

I didn't know that - I always keep a bottle of canocular in the house as Willow needed her eyes done a few times a day.

Well I think for anything else, Mark, a bit of salt can be a good idea. Especially for irrigating an abcess. Salt does have a mildly anticeptic effect... but judging amounts to use when mixing a solution is hard if you're not an expert and with something as sensitive as an eye I just avoid salt altogether. 

Catherine, eyes can clear up on their own, and can also flare up again for no good reason. It depends on the root cause... sometimes puss can be carrying a virus which periodically flares up. So keep an eye on the situation.... get it?? Eye on it???  I should charge for these gems, you know! 

[Mark]

In the meantime, could you bathe it with boiled then cooled salt water?

No salt, Mark. It only serves to aggrevate the eye further and speed up mucus production. Plain warm water is best. 

  Thanks Julie.

I didn't know that - I always keep a bottle of cleanocular in the house as Willow needed her eyes done a few times a day.

[catherine]

tigger just woke up and 2 tell you the truth it didnt look so bad as it was before  i just washed my hands thoroughly and cleaned his eye,  his eye seems to have settled a bit, I think its still irritatting him but has got quite better  :D

[catherine]

Leave him sleep for now. But as soon as he wakes if he can't open the eye, then's the time to act.  The gunk itself is infected and carries bacteria so obviously wash hands before touching hom elsewhere etc...

I should add that I rescue a lot of feral kittens and an awful lot come to me with cat flu and sticky eyes... if I had a penny for every eye I've bathed I'd be off somewhere sunny and not shivering in this snow! 

LOL   
ok then il have to wait until tiggy wakes up..  again for all your help thankyou everyone i'd be in a state by now if it wasnt for you helpful people   

[Pinkbear (Julie)]

Leave him sleep for now. But as soon as he wakes if he can't open the eye, then's the time to act.  The gunk itself is infected and carries bacteria so obviously wash hands before touching hom elsewhere etc...

I should add that I rescue a lot of feral kittens and an awful lot come to me with cat flu and sticky eyes... if I had a penny for every eye I've bathed I'd be off somewhere sunny and not shivering in this snow! 

[catherine]

I can understand... sometimes the stress involved in taking them to the vet can be as bad as the issue itself. 

Just make sure that eye doesn't glue shut for too long and you should have a day or two to see if it settles. 

lol yh tell me about it 
soooooo il try amd make sure he doesnt keep his eye closed 4 too long, hes sleepin atm imma gona try and clean his eye when he wakes up, or shal i do it now before it gets any worse 

[Pinkbear (Julie)]

I can understand... sometimes the stress involved in taking them to the vet can be as bad as the issue itself. 

Just make sure that eye doesn't glue shut for too long and you should have a day or two to see if it settles. 

[catherine]

thankyou all very much for your help  for the meantime im goin to try and cleanse his eye with cotton wool and warm water, its terrible taking tigger to the vet  if it gets any worse il have to make an appointment, il keep you all updated with how hes getting on 

[Pinkbear (Julie)]

In the meantime, could you bathe it with boiled then cooled salt water?

No salt, Mark. It only serves to aggrevate the eye further and speed up mucus production. Plain warm water is best. 

[Pinkbear (Julie)]

Keep calm. Eye infections are a common problem.

Get some cotton wool, make it damp and clean any gunk off working gently across the eye. Make sure you remove all of it. Keep doing it every now and again when you see a build up of gunk. Don't be surprised if the eye does get a bit more sticky a short while after you clean it - the eye has been fooled into thinking there's a foreign body in there so it will produce mucus in an attempt to remove it. The more you fiddle with eyes, the more the body stimulates the production of mucus. Most importantly, do try to avoid the eye sealing itself and closing up completely. Not good at all to have infection working away behind a closed eye.  

Make an appointment tomorrow to go see your vet. There's a wonderful ointment they'll give you that will fix puss's eye in no time!  

[Mark]

In the meantime, could you bathe it with boiled then cooled salt water?

[Sam (Fussy_Furball)]

He may have a touch of conjuctivitis or he may have scratched it.  I would definitely recommend a vet visit tomorrow if possible to get it checked out. 

[catherine]

Earlier this evening i noticed something wrong with Tigger, his left eye keeps closing it seems almost as if he cant keep his eye open. His right eye is perfectly fine but its his left? i checked his eye it seems to be sticky and red? he's having trouble keeping it open and i was wondering whether if it was just an eye infection? His behavious is fine he is eating sleeping normally.. Is it just an eye infection Any advice please?