Eye Trauma or Pink eye- Treatment Advice Please!!

[ThornyRidgeII]

Just noticed tonight that one of my mature nigies has a very cloudy (white/grey) eye.. upon examination that seems to be really all it is.. there was very little tearing or weeping. no gunk..unfortunately it is dark here and not greatest of light so not sure if there would be some type of trauma (hay poke or even scratch from devouring multiflora rose and blackberry lately).. of course my tetramyacin is almost a year expired and never been used. I have never had any "pink eye" ever in my history of this herd which has been together for 10 years. I am not sure how pink eye (contagious type) would even be a consideration.. checked all other goats and all have clear eyes. I am thinking I will treat as if pinkeye and obviously pick up some new teramyacin ointment.. I do have penicillin on hand but I am hesitant to go dumping a bunch of chemicals and such in her eye.. she acts fine.. just cloudy and keeps it closed. Suggestions from others? oh and this only would have gotten this cloudy in the past couple of days.. at least by my recollection eye was "fine" Monday evening.

 

[20kidsonhill]

Sounds like pink eye to me. I would treat for a few days, normally take several days for it to start looking better.

 

[woodsie]

If it is pink eye raw unpasteurized honey dissolved in previously boiled water that has cooled and dropped into the eye will take care of it. The better quality the honey the more effective it will be. I have treated my dogs and kids with the honey mixture and I can tell you it WORKS! Treat both eyes apply a tsp in each eye twice a day...should be better within a day or two. Seems to work much better than antibiotics and it is totally safe and available.

 

[Moonshine]

If it is pink eye raw unpasteurized honey dissolved in previously boiled water that has cooled and dropped into the eye will take care of it. The better quality the honey the more effective it will be. I have treated my dogs and kids with the honey mixture and I can tell you it WORKS! Treat both eyes apply a tsp in each eye twice a day...should be better within a day or two. Seems to work much better than antibiotics and it is totally safe and available.

Can you be more specific on the water honey ratio please sir?

 

[Moonshine]

Never mind I found it in another post! Hope this works for my baby! If anybody is wondering its 1 part water + 1 part honey. Thanks so much!

 

[Four Winds Ranch]

I does sound like pink-eye to me too!!! I hope you have caught it before any of the others have caught it!!
Also, if it is pink-eye, there is a chance it may reocurr 3-6 weeks after it has cleared up, so keep your eyes open.

 

[woodsie]

Never mind I found it in another post! Hope this works for my baby! If anybody is wondering its 1 part water + 1 part honey. Thanks so much!

Did the honey solution work for you Moonshine?

 

[Moonshine]

Well..... this is what I did. I did the honey mix in both eyes for 3 days and on the first day I treated with duramycin. So it was looking so good after the first day and I thought how wonderful. Even though I treated both eyes the day after I stopped the treatment, day 5, she decided to keep the other eye closed. So now I'm treating again, same treatment as before. Hopefully we will have better success this time and I will keep y'all informed on how the honey duramyicn mix works for us. Did anything like this happen to you Woodsie, after you treated with the honey?

 

[ThornyRidgeII]

I was using a vet prescribed antibiotic opthamalic ointment.. minimal improvement.. also used a nfz puffer a couple times.. no significant improvement but not worse on either case.. I have totally switched up to now trying cod liver oil in eye and orally. both goats only have issue in one eye and so far noone has shown any other symptoms.. I do believe for sure the one goat was from an injury. Thankfully we have no flies!!!

 

[Moonshine]

Well its update time. Today Moon's eye was not any better! I checked her about 2 and her eye had turned grey and cloudy so I gathered some feces (to check for worms lol not pink eye) and headed to the vet. He gave me some kind of salve, hope it works! I also read on fiasco farms that LA-200 was good for pink eye if your antibiotics aren't working still. How are your goats doing ThornyRidgeII? Here's the site on the meds and dosing and I know you can get it at TSC. I might have to try that too if this doesn't work.

http://fiascofarm.com/goats/pinkeye.htm