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hay poke. no vet for 3 days

Julesie said:
Yeah :) I’m a huge fan of their work, both him and Saskia.
gl with your little piggy :wub:
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I just watched one of her videos, removing a piece of hay and the eye was already grey/white all over. 😱

And I was able to order terramycin and another eye gel lubricant, delivery tomorrow.
 
PigglePuggle said:
Eye ointments usially go off and need disposing of within 4 weeks and also.could transfer infection if used on different piggies- they dont temain sterile and suitable for reuse.
If you can get a lubricant eye gel suitable for humans, from a pharmacy or even online, that will ease discomfort and may stop the eye injury getting worse until you can see the vet and they can check using that fluorescent dye for any foreign objects and properly diagnose and prescribe for what is going on.
Tallulah uses Siccasan eye lubricant gel from Amazon as she has an ongoing dry sticky eye, something like that would be suitable for a short term soothing harmless treatment until you see the vet- but eye issues do count as emergencies and ideally should be seen withing 24 hours so best of luck getting to the vet as soon as you can!
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Ive got the siccasan gel now. Tried a tiny tiny drop in the corner of her eye/lid, just to make sure it wouldn't give her a bad reaction.

This is so hard to get NO help from doctors, but to be made to feel I can't seek my own advice in a desperate situation. It sure looks like the stuff is going to help her! I'm glad you suggested it :)
 
Scooter Pie said:
A week! Your poor little guy 😭 I’ll be watching her closely and will keep her home extra clean. I took out her fleece tunnels because I thought pushing through fabric would be a risk, so wooden bridge and corner tents only right now.

At this point she’s in for Tuesday night, and I don’t think they “have an exotic vet” there on Mondays.

I just wish ANY vet would see her. I need to understand why they can’t treat an eye emergency without being an exotic vet. Sure, they can’t do a full physical. She doesn’t need that right now.
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Honestly an exotic vet is probably best as much as it is frustrating to wait as they sometimes can only prescribe so much and don't always get dosage right...the first vet we took ours too I'm not 100% he was an exotic vet like he claimed as after his treatment he only got worse...the second vet was horrified when the treatment was explained and has done his best to help us correct it...but he believes now because of the mess up he might have a tumour behind his eye...he is 4-6 year old rescue so surgery is very risky...just keeping her clean and tidy will be good for now...if you have a way to keep the fleece tunnels open a little bit they should be oki...we cut sections of boxes off and stick them in the opening...bathmats are good as well...the bobbly ones (not furry) theyre very easy to brush down on a day to day and absorb pee very well...and making sure she is eating and drinking is the main thing...critical care is a god send...so having some in just incase and probiotics is good...weve been using fibreplex and Emeraid sustain herbivore...one of the piggies we thought would hate syringe feeding and the critical care as she doesn't like mint keeps nipping because I'm not quick enough with it...but she won't take it out the bowl...
 
Update! Buttercup's eye has healed on it's own. Whew. They did a fluorescein stain and it was negative. She says eyes heal a about a milimeter a day, which makes sense as the damaged spot looked to me to be around 3mm. So after 3 days, it was gone.

I showed her the OTC eye gels Id picked up and she said it can't hurt. Trying to get info if I need to treat at home again.

Anyway, it was neat to go there because I worked there over 20 years ago when I was just a young mid 20s girl. With looking back, that was pre-9/11 and now today, bringing my 16 year old along and leaving her in the car because they only let one person in due to the pandemic...just wow.
 
I'm so glad Buttercup is oki...the eye gels will always come in useful to keep in...terramycin and lubrathal are the ones we use for Butterball...the only other suggestions for the hay is to before you put it in to the cage put it in a bag first as shake it...the majority of the dust and small bits should got to the bottom...meaning there should hopefully be less chance of hay poke with small bits...
 
Thank you all for being here for us for these past few days! I feel less alone, knowing I can do some things to help in an emergency.

Going to keep the eye gel and terramycin unopened and hope I don't need it any time soon!
 
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