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Cocker Specific Discussion => Health => Topic started by: SophieBlueRoanLover on March 03, 2013, 07:55:30 PM
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If it's not one thing, it's another....
Having finally (hopefully) sorted out Henry's endless bottom issues (campylobacter, hookworm and tapeworm) he woke up this morning with gunky red eyes. His right eye is particularly bad - looks like a bloodhound. There's a bit of discharge (yellowy-greeny) so I think it must be conjunctivitis. Plus the other eye's a bit red too, so I think it must be that (if it was just one eye I'd be worried it was something in it). The corneas look all right in the light. It's just the inner eyelids are very red, and in the right one the lid is a bit swollen. I just phoned the emergency vet and she recommended just bathing it in warm water with a cotton pad (not ball as they're more scratchy) - and not to use a saline solution. And to get him in first thing tomorrow.
So back to the vets first thing to get it looked at. Hopefully it's nothing more serious, poor little mite. I've retrieved the cone of shame from a friend to put on him overnight so he doesn't scratch them.
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Poor you and Henry. I kind of know how you feel as I seem to be spending half my time at the vet's with either Lovely or Spud at the mo, I even have a favourite chair in the waiting room! Hope his sore eyes are soon ok. I wonder if all his parasite infections have made him a bit run down. I think the high number of foxes in and around London might well contribute to the worm issue, mum and dad seem to have loads visit their garden. Really hope he's feeling better soon.
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Poor Henry, hope the vet gives him some medicine that makes his eye better very quickly.
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I'm sure that the Vet can give you something to soothe Henry's sore eyes today, poor little mite :bigarmhug:
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Aww poor little Henry, he really has been in the wars lately.
Poor you too as I know its worrying. Ive heard a few with this problems, hopefully the vet gives you something today.
Let us know how it goes.
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Just been to the vet - Henry had the green stuff in his eye and they found a small corneal ulcer. He's been given eye-drops to use and anti-inflammatories for a week, then another check-up in a week's time and straight back to vet if it gets worse or doesn't seem to get better. The vet was reassuring and said they clear up well in young dogs and that it was probably from a scratch from playing with another dog.
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Just been to the vet - Henry had the green stuff in his eye and they found a small corneal ulcer. He's been given eye-drops to use and anti-inflammatories for a week, then another check-up in a week's time and straight back to vet if it gets worse or doesn't seem to get better. The vet was reassuring and said they clear up well in young dogs and that it was probably from a scratch from playing with another dog.
Thats good to hear sophie, Hopefully the drops and anti inflammatories will start to work soon.
Hugs to Henry from Pal Riley x
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Poor Henry hopefully he'll feel much better soon x
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Sorry to read this, Sophie.
It's been a testing few weeks for poor Henry :luv:
Hope all is resolved quickly and painlessly and that we see you and Henry out and about soon.
x
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How is henry today ?
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Henry seems pretty much the same after a couple of days of treatment, although there's slightly less gunk coming out. I'm keeping the cone on him when he's at home, to stop him scratching. He seems a little depressed about that. There was also a tiny pile of stick/bile on the carpet this morning, probably totally unrelated. Oh, and he woke up to go out and poo at 2am (thanks Henry!).
He's also being a right pain on walks - literally will not walk anywhere, and I don't know if his eyesight is affected (although he's absolutely fine once in the park at the end of the road, off the lead). I let him play with another puppy today, which I'm not supposed to, but he just loves it so much! He's been fine having the eye-drops put in, with the help of Primula in a tube (he even licks it when the lid's on!). He's on Chloramphenicol eye-drops for a week.
Anyone else whose dog has had an ulcer on the cornea - how long did it take to clear up? Were there any complications?
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Henry seems pretty much the same after a couple of days of treatment, although there's slightly less gunk coming out. I'm keeping the cone on him when he's at home, to stop him scratching. He seems a little depressed about that. There was also a tiny pile of stick/bile on the carpet this morning, probably totally unrelated. Oh, and he woke up to go out and poo at 2am (thanks Henry!).
He's also being a right pain on walks - literally will not walk anywhere, and I don't know if his eyesight is affected (although he's absolutely fine once in the park at the end of the road, off the lead). I let him play with another puppy today, which I'm not supposed to, but he just loves it so much! He's been fine having the eye-drops put in, with the help of Primula in a tube (he even licks it when the lid's on!). He's on Chloramphenicol eye-drops for a week.
Anyone else whose dog has had an ulcer on the cornea - how long did it take to clear up? Were there any complications?
Sorry not had experience of this.
Hope he is as right as rain in a few days x
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I have never had a dog with the problem but have suffered one myself....it's so painful, also when I went outside any wind or cold air made my eye sting. I would have thought his eye would have improved by now, might be worth popping back to the vets. I guess there is a risk of infection.
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Henry seems pretty much the same after a couple of days of treatment, although there's slightly less gunk coming out. I'm keeping the cone on him when he's at home, to stop him scratching. He seems a little depressed about that. There was also a tiny pile of stick/bile on the carpet this morning, probably totally unrelated. Oh, and he woke up to go out and poo at 2am (thanks Henry!).
He's also being a right pain on walks - literally will not walk anywhere, and I don't know if his eyesight is affected (although he's absolutely fine once in the park at the end of the road, off the lead). I let him play with another puppy today, which I'm not supposed to, but he just loves it so much! He's been fine having the eye-drops put in, with the help of Primula in a tube (he even licks it when the lid's on!). He's on Chloramphenicol eye-drops for a week.
Anyone else whose dog has had an ulcer on the cornea - how long did it take to clear up? Were there any complications?
Poor Henry - when I saw the title of this thread my heart nearly stopped!!!! Hope he is on the mend now. I'm fairly sure that saw another thread about corneal ulcers not too long ago - I'll have a trawl and see if I can find it. Big licks for Henry from Ozzy, and big :bigarmhug: for you. x
Edit - I see you found the thread.
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Took Henry back to the vets again this morning, as his eye doesn't seem much better. There was a different vet and she found another tiny ulcer, hidden under his third eyelid (which is swollen to protect his eye). She managed to scrape a bit of stuff off both ulcers, and we'll go back again on Monday. It was horribly traumatic, with my poor baby screaming his head off as they were trying to hold him still to put the fluorescent drops in. They made me leave the room and he did calm down a bit, but was still whining in pain/misery/discomfort. I was only just managing to hold back the tears!
Just wish my poor little fella would get better, but sion and honormum (thank you both!) have at least given me some advice and reassurance, as well as time-scales - it's not something that goes away quickly, and may need minor surgery if it doesn't start to show healing by early next week.
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Took Henry back to the vets again this morning, as his eye doesn't seem much better. There was a different vet and she found another tiny ulcer, hidden under his third eyelid (which is swollen to protect his eye). She managed to scrape a bit of stuff off both ulcers, and we'll go back again on Monday. It was horribly traumatic, with my poor baby screaming his head off as they were trying to hold him still to put the fluorescent drops in. They made me leave the room and he did calm down a bit, but was still whining in pain/misery/discomfort. I was only just managing to hold back the tears!
Just wish my poor little fella would get better, but sion and honormum (thank you both!) have at least given me some advice and reassurance, as well as time-scales - it's not something that goes away quickly, and may need minor surgery if it doesn't start to show healing by early next week.
Aww Sophie just caught up with this. I really hope Henrys eye starts healing really soon and surgery can be avoided.
what a worry x
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:-\ oh dear, the poor love, hope he's better soon :bigarmhug:
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Get well soon Henry :luv:
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Oh poor Henry!!! I'm so sorry that things haven't improved. Fingers crossed that his eye starts to heal soon and you can avoid surgery. Big hugs for you and squishes for Henry. :bigarmhug:
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Thanks all! He's currently curled up asleep on the sofa - one thing that's come from all this is he's far more sociable (and even more affectionate) in the evenings - he used to go to his bed, but now is happy to snuggle on the sofa between my hubby and me :luv:
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Am really sorry to hear that Henry needed to have more treatment on his eye today and he has a 2nd little ulcer. Hopefully this will help the eye to recover better now. I was surprised that the vet removed a layer of Alfie's cornea on his first visit (still makes me wince thinking about it) but it worked well for him.
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Big hugs for Henry from Teddy - who knows exactly how Henry is feeling! :luv:
Hope he's on the mend very, very soon.xxx
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How's Henry now? He is in our thoughts.
Get well soon little man. Xxxx
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I hope Henry's eye is feeling better this morning :bigarmhug:
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How is Henry's eye today? Poor little soul, he's really having a bad time of it. :'( Fingers crossed he'll be better soon. :luv:
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He's not been too bad today, although he did begin to take offence with us trying to get the eye-drops in - the lure of the Primula is waning :(
He was better out walking today, and we had a nice long walk, without too much stubbornness/weirdness (he sometimes just stops and I've no idea if he's scared, can't see properly or is just being teenagerish).
The eye doesn't really look any better, although I think there may be a little less discharge. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. The third eyelid is still swollen and he looks quite sad, but then he's a cocker and they perfect that sad look to get more love, I think!
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He's not been too bad today, although he did begin to take offence with us trying to get the eye-drops in - the lure of the Primula is waning :(
He was better out walking today, and we had a nice long walk, without too much stubbornness/weirdness (he sometimes just stops and I've no idea if he's scared, can't see properly or is just being teenagerish).
The eye doesn't really look any better, although I think there may be a little less discharge. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. The third eyelid is still swollen and he looks quite sad, but then he's a cocker and they perfect that sad look to get more love, I think!
Aww poor little guy, Hope today sees an improvement sophie x
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He's not been too bad today, although he did begin to take offence with us trying to get the eye-drops in - the lure of the Primula is waning :(
He was better out walking today, and we had a nice long walk, without too much stubbornness/weirdness (he sometimes just stops and I've no idea if he's scared, can't see properly or is just being teenagerish).
The eye doesn't really look any better, although I think there may be a little less discharge. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. The third eyelid is still swollen and he looks quite sad, but then he's a cocker and they perfect that sad look to get more love, I think!
Sorry to hear that Henry is having a problem with his eyes. He might be having problems with his vision with his stopping on walks. Our Dylan does the same and he has cataracts. Hope Henry's eyes problem is better soon without surgery.
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Not much change today, although his eye wasn't crusty and closed this morning - still lots of gunk. Bit chirpier. About to go for a walk with Liesl and Cassie - hopefully his walking will be okay.
New problem - he really doesn't want the eye-drops any more and seems to associate the Primula with eye-problems and pain. He got really panicky this morning - we tried a few things and ended up with hubby kind of sitting over him holding him down (with frankfurter this time) and managed like that. Not good at all though and I won't be able to do this on my own. I read an old post by Snoo about how to administer the drops and tried to hold him from behind or hold his muzzle, but that didn't work either. Don't know how I'm going to make this a less unpleasant experience for him, now that he gets all panicky just seeing the tiny white bottle. Back to vet in the morning, so maybe they'll have some advice (vet nurse before just said come from behind so that he can't see you - he sees me!).
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Just been back to the vet and it looks as if his corneal ulcer is on the mend. The tiny second one has gone and the other one has got smaller. He was shaking horribly when I took him in but they managed to get the fluorescent drops in and have a look without too much effort (I had to go outside so I couldn't hear if he was screaming or not - just a bit of whining I think).
Back in for another check-up on Thursday, so hopefully the healing will continue...
All such a worry!
(And makes me glad I have pet insurance!).
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glad to hear Henry's eye is on the mend. :luv: