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Heterotropic bone growth in eyes

Jess565

Jess565

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I was reading through September's GP magazine and reading the heath article about heterotropic bone growth in a guinea pigs eye and realized my guinea looks to have this in both of his eyes, not bad just a mark on the edge of each eye. I know he has issues with calcium in his wee, he always has since we got him in June last year and we are trying very hard to keep him to a very low calcium diet. Could this be part of this issue with calcium? What actually is it in his eye?
 
Your best bet is to take him to the vet for a check. You could in the meantime post a photo, but what you’re told here can’t replace a vet check.

With regards calcium, what are the issues?
 
Hi when we adopted him I took him to our vets to be registered and checked over, they checked his eyes and we saw them then but they said that was just his eyes and it wasn't an issue but it wasn't explained what it was, it was only after that article in the gp magazine I thought it looked the same, it might not be though.
His calcium issue is that he has always had gritty wee we have tried lots of things to stop it but no luck yet.
 

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What do you feed him? And do you filter the water?
 
He's on the science select grain free pellets, I try and keep any veg/salads that are high in calcium to an absolute minimum and he is on filtered water. He was in very bad shape when we adopted him he was emaciated so he has not had a good start to life, he was apparently 1.5 years old when we got him he was tiny but he's definitely filled out since he's been with us.
I have recently got the oxbow urine support tablets in an attempt to help I really don't want him to get a stone or any issues.
 
I think some just have a propensity for stones - a matter of genetics. I would completely cut out high calcium veg. You can’t cut calcium out completely of course. Well done on taking him on though 🙂
 
I think if you’re doing everything we would advise and it’s still not improving, then I would cut out pellets altogether and then monitor for a few weeks to see what happens.
 
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