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Eye drops causing irritation?

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Hi all, I hope you are having a good weekend.

Our little Winnie has hay poke and is on chloramphenicol eye drops (the ones you keep in the fridge). She squeezes her eye tight as soon as we go near to apply the drops and most of it misses but we’re managing to get some in each time. The trouble is her eye seems to water quite a lot after the drops go in and she sits with her eye mostly closed for quite a while afterwards. (She does still manage to eat while she’s sitting there, despite the trauma of the eye drops and I’ve seen her open her eye a bit to look for the food 😍).

Is it normal for the drops to make their eyes stream? Is this going to be diluting the effect of the meds or washing is straight back out?

She is due a follow up next week at the vets too.

Many thanks
 
Is it actually watering or is it that the drop is running?

Are you trying to do the drop alone or is there two is you?
It’s easier if one person holds piggy. The other person holds the eye lid open with one hand and puts the drops in with the other.
 
Thanks for the reply. I think it looks like her eye’s actually watering (ie not just the drops running).Thanks for the tips too.
 
I also meant to say she’s on 0.3 metacam twice a day, so hopefully even if the drops are a bit irritating or stringent(?), she’s hopefully not in too much discomfort? She has a corneal ulcer which showed up at the vets when they used the dye.
 
I don’t recall seeing the eye watering after drops applied when any of mine have had haypoke
but it’s been a while since (touch wood I’ve not jinxed it!).
I’ve also not been given chloramphenicol before (it’s only been isathal). Chloramphenicol is a stronger antibiotic.
I would be surprised if it is the drops themselves stinging but it may be to do with the injury itself.

We normally recommend a corneal repair gel is also applied alongside (but not at the same time as - leave at least half an hour between the two) antibiotic drops as it can aid healing.
Do speak to the vet to double check all is well
 
Thanks all, the watering does stop after a while and only seems to come after the drops have been applied. It sometimes seems as if the drop doesn’t fully go in but just sort of sits on the surface of her eyeball if that makes sense.

Maybe we should try the gel today too, if so I’ll do that an hour after the meds.

We’re due back on Wednesday for a follow up but I will send them a photo and speak to them tomorrow to check if they think we need to come in sooner. They did say it might take a while to heal and they were happy there were no foreign objects in her eye.

This is the eye now (before we put the drops in).

Thanks for your advice, much appreciated. 91B11AC9-617D-4654-A499-08BCCD4F37B8.webp
 
Hi all, just an update... I sent photos to the vet this morning who suggested a visit to be safe which we’ve just done. The ulcer is still there after a week of treatment so we’re trying her on a different AB (exocin) to see if that helps. She’ll keep having the hydrating drops and metacam too.
 
Just a quick update on Winnie’s eye. She had another check up today (her fourth visit about this eye and her sixth vet visit in six weeks!). Poor Winnie.

The good news is that the eye is healing and definitely looking much better than it was on Monday, so we’re on the right tracks… but it’s not there yet so we’re continuing with the exocin, the hydrating gel and the Metacam for one more week and will hopefully get to see it heal completely by then. Fingers crossed. We go back next Saturday.

Here she is with her Incredible Hulk green eye dye.

She’s doing fine in herself and although she doesn’t love the constant treatment and never ending vet trips, she does look a lot more comfortable this week in that she’s not squinting.

They also mentioned nuclear sclerosis in her other eye (change to the lens) but said this is quite common as animals age, and is not in itself of concern.

She got some green pepper as a reward and a bit of forage when she came home. 464F89F9-552B-4128-AA31-AE8491FA9CF1.webp
 
Thanks for your support with this. It’s the first hay poke we’ve had that’s taken more than a few days to heal (and we got her seen really quickly too) but I guess it must have been a bad one. These meds seem to be doing some good. Poor thing!
 
Good to hear things are going in the right direction. Hopefully next week’s appointment will be the last.
 
Thanks Vicki, hope so too! We did manage to combine one of the visits with a general health check up for both her and Mabel so that was good.
 
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