Injured Clouded, watery eye

[samssimonsays]

ANything with an eye I would say have a vet look at it. Our Nubian doe got her head stuck in a pallet ... She really isn't bright at all. We had to break it to get her out. Afterwards her eye was slightly swollen and cloudy like she had bumped it while trying to get it out of the pallet before we got to her. We still don't know how she did it. Called the vet and they said to watch it. It got cloudier and she could hardly see out of it. Vet took a look at it and there was nothing wrong other than the cloudiness. Eventually it cleared up over the next couple weeks and all has been fine. BUT, that peace of mind in knowing the vet had seen it and nothing was actually wrong was worth it. Leg and eye wounds are the big ones I don't mess around with here. Good luck.

 

[Alicia]

Okay. I found some good ointment, it's called tobradex. I have used it on myself for eye infections....it's a steroid and anitbiotic. Have my eye rinse also.

 

[norseofcourse]

Okay. I found some good ointment, it's called tobradex. I have used it on myself for eye infections....it's a steroid and anitbiotic. Have my eye rinse also.

With horses, you do not want to use any eye medication with steroids if there's any chance of a scratch or scrape on the cornea - it can make it worse and they can lose the eye. I would imagine that applies to any animal with a possible cornea injury. Can you get antibiotic eye ointment that doesn't have steroids?

 

[babsbag]

You should be able to get terramycin at TSC. Saw it at our store this morning when looking for ear stuff.

 

[Southern by choice]

This is from one of my old farm partners goats- this one was about 4 years ago
IT WAS HORRIBLE! But all worked out!
Quoting the post-
"Caleb had a really bad issue a little bit ago. I never mentioned it anywhere else so none of you know but it was bad. He had scratched his eye. Not a big deal and they close it for a day, it clouds over, they get better. Well for some reason his eye got dangerously bad. I had not seen it for two days (last I saw it it was all ok and normal) then after that two day break from not seeing it, I saw it. His cornea has separated and was bulging out of his head. His whole eye basically was shooting out of his socket. It was clouded over and all you could see was the bulged thick white covering. It was so bad that it was the kind of thing where you are like, "Ok. Well either we try and treat this and hopefully he livesand if he does lets hope he's not blind. Basically we treat him and hopefully he lives and doesn't die on us." It was really bad and make your stomach turn. I decided to give him some Penicillin at a does of 1cc per 15 pounds. He got 4cc of Penicillin twice a day IM in the hip. He also got 1.5cc of it in his eye once a day. Did this for 7 days as well as gave him some probios to help his gut. (He didn't eat any of the probios though) I finished the 7 day course and his eye looked a bit better but not much more I could do so took him off it and let him be. Now, I want to say this real quick, it is amazing this goat. NEVER, thru this whole thing, did he once act not normal or act sick. I mean you would think that an eye injury so bad that you wonder if he'll even live would at least make him act "off". Nope he acted 100% normal every second of this issue. I still can't believe it. But now his eye is getting much better. His eye is still bulged a little bit and still has some white covering over it but you can now see his eye behind it and it is all going down. I think that soon his eye will be back to normal. He was able to see thru it for the longest time (how idk!) but then at the end he was blind in it but I think the sight is coming back. I will check once it is healed the rest of the way to see if he can see thru it again.

But boy, his eye was so bad I can't even explain it. I'm glad he is better now and didn't want to make mention of it because I had no idea if he would die or if we needed to put him down so I wanted to hold off.

Buut all is good now with all the animals and later today we should have more goats!"

 

[Alicia]

Update....Talked to vet, he clarified that if he knew what the cause was steroid ointment could be used if needed, since we still don't know don't use it. Goat is acting great still, eye is now open so not light sensitive anymore but still cloudy and now red. Have appt tomorrow to take him in for vet check.
Poor guy...pee burns and a bum eye.
Update in morning. thanks for all the help!

 

[babsbag]

Glad that the vet is going to see him. I am sure that they will fix him up.

 

[Alicia]

Saw vet this morning. she stained the eye and found what appears to be scar tissue from a healing trauma. no obvious signs of blunt force trauma though, may have been chemical trauma from urine scald....so he either hit his face or peed in his eye...gross.
He is now on antibiotic ointment and pain meds. if swelling dosent go down over the next 8 days, vet may want to do a steroid then. Vet said cloudiness should clear in next couple weeks. He does have some vision, limited though. Hopeful it will come back. Other than being traumatized by the trailer ride to vet he is doing good.
Thank u everyone for your help, advise and input!!

 

[babsbag]

They really need to learn to avoid peeing on their own faces. I have one with urine scald on his nose and lips. Glad is wasn't something worse and I hope he heals up just fine and maybe he will learn...doubtful but we can hope.