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Safe over the counter eye drops

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Can anybody recommend any safe over the counter human eye drops that can be used for guinea pigs?

Obviously if any of my piggies had an eye injury / problem that I couldn't deal with I would take them to the vets but I am after something I could use as a just in case if something happened at the weekend or something.

Eliza has yet another watery eye. I know what it is as it has happened before (she's had some dust or debris in it). I have clean her eye and thankfully have some Fucithalmic vet eye drops left over and Eliza's eye is already looking better (she has no poke there by the way) but I am just thinking ahead in case this happens and I have no Fucithalmic vet.

After what happened with Erin, I am very paranoid about eyes :(
 
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I used optrex medicated eye drops you have to ask for them at the pharmacy counter I asked my vet and she said they ok to use till you can get to a vets :)
 
degu_rock said:
I used optrex medicated eye drops you have to ask for them at the pharmacy counter I asked my vet and she said they ok to use till you can get to a vets :)
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But don't tell them it's for an animal or they won't sell them to you. I've made that mistake before! :))
 
Viscotears is another option - not medicated, just moisturising. My vet told me about them for Bingo pig to go alongside the AB ones when recovering from an injury/infection
 
Please be very careful about using eye drops just on spec. If in doubt, you can wash out the eye with saline solution (1 tsp of salt dissolved in 1 pint of boiled, cooled water).

Any injury should be seen by a vet.
 
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Think I will use this as an excuse then... for my OH :))
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I will warn you, most pharmacists will want to see the patient with conjunctivitis before they sell to you, anything with eyes is generally a pharmacist referral i.e. you need to see the pharmacist. I suppose it just depends who you see on the day.
 
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Please be very careful about using eye drops just on spec. If in doubt, you can wash out the eye with saline solution (1 tsp of salt dissolved in 1 pint of boiled, cooled water).

Any injury should be seen by a vet.
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I've washed her eye out and used the eye drops prescribed for Erin and Ena. Thankfully she is looking slightly better but she will be seeing a vet on Monday if there's no improvement.

I've checked her eye and can't see any pokes.

I was just wondering and wouldn't use anything without checking first :)
 
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I told them my gran conjunctivitis and told them symptoms and pharmacist was fine with it, I felt dodgy :)) I asked my vet and she said its ok to use them till you can see a vet :)
 
I have used both Brolene and Optrex Infected eye on my pigs but we use Fucithamlmic if we have it in. Maybe your vet would let you have some to keep at home for future use? Our vets are good like that.
 
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