Eye Trauma or Pink eye- Treatment Advice Please!!

[ThornyRidgeII]

Moonshine, my two goats still have the very cloudy almost opaque eye.. of course one has it on the right side and the other has it on the left side.. anyway last night I switched up my treatment regimen to a couple squirts of LA200 in the eye.. I was at first hesitant because I know how much this burns when injected so can't imagine what it must feel like in eye.. after wiping away tear stains on cheeks with listerine I put the drops or squirts if you will in and no real response from either.. they blinked a bunch which I liked to help smear the meds around in the eye.. I will try this for a few days.. the one goat keeps her eye open most if not all of the time.. apparently no issues with light.. the other one is about 50/50 .. both do appear to have lost sight in their affected eyes as I try to sneak up on them from that side because when they see me coming with this conglormation of medications they literally run for me.. last night it took me dumping a pile of animal cookies inside the barn to get the one doe to even come in.. she just stood outside hollering at me looking at me like "forget you I aint coming in there!" soooo much easier if they would just cooperate!!!!! will keep you posted on this.. this is now week 3 for the one and week 2 for the other.. whew.. I am about done with this nonsense!!

 

[20kidsonhill]

We use LA 200 in the eye and also give LA 200 shots to older animals that are done growing and penn G shots to younger animals that are still growing. It can take several days for the eye to clear up, but I don't give the shots or treatments for more than 5 days. Any of the ones I have ever treated seemed to recover their eyesight after 10 days to 2 weeks.

 

[bcnewe2]

you'd be surprised as to the site coming back into their eyes after a nasty bout of Pinkeye. 1 year I swore my old ewe would be blind forever but as soon as I got her pink eye cleared up her eye cleared of milkiness and she could see again. It took forever for treatment to really clear it totally up but eventually it did.

 

[woodsie]

Sorry for not responding earlier...I must have missed these last posts. Sorry to hear that you are still battling this...with my cases of pink eye it cleared up within 24 hours of the first dose of honey. I did manage to treat it early however so I don't know how successful it would be in later stages.

I didn't have any reoccurence once I treat the infected animals.

 

[Moonshine]

Sorry for not responding earlier...I must have missed these last posts. Sorry to hear that you are still battling this...with my cases of pink eye it cleared up within 24 hours of the first dose of honey. I did manage to treat it early however so I don't know how successful it would be in later stages.

I didn't have any reoccurence once I treat the infected animals.

Well Woodsie, it just didn't work for me. I started the treatment the day after I noticed the tearing. It did clear up right away and I continued to treat but it came right back in the other eye and just got worse. I have tried to do my research on natural and home remedies and I think it's just something that works for some people or animals and some it just doesn't do it for them. Oh well, I started her on the salve yesterday and her eye is already opened up today so I know she is feeling better. It is still gray and cloudy so hopefully that will clear up too with time and medication. It's no biggie, I really hoped it would work but it just didn't for her. I'm all for trying natural methods but I know if it's not helping or getting worse it's time for professional advice. I do appreciate the advise you and others have given because this form is my first go to when I'm experiencing a problem.