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Squinty eye?

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One of my Guinea pigs has developed squinted eyes and some mild discharge coming from them. Her cage mate has an eye that oozes constantly and we thought it was the result of an abscess damaging the tear duct but now I am starting to think it may be contagious…

Anything we can do for now? She has a general welfare check up in a week and a half and doesn’t seem too bothered, still wandering about and eating/drinking/pooping.
 
Hello. I’d try and move the vet appointment as soon as possible and take them both along for a check up. Eyes are classed as an emergency and can be seen by any vet. Good luck.
 
We’ll see about getting her in. Our vet knows our phone number at this point so it shouldn’t be an issue. We put some Ofloxacin drops in her eyes just to give them some coating.
 
Vet, antibiotics, stain to test for hay poke/corneal ulcer, etc. Please rush them to the vet. I would classify this as an emergency.

There are things like potential soft tissue injury that I may administer some meloxicam and see, but even I messed up there once with a disclocation that I missed which if I got the piggy in time to the vet they may have been able to pop back in. now he has a 'fake' joint and is walking again, but the quality of life is worse because I was too lazy to take him to the vet the moment I saw it.

I will never make that mistake again. But that said, eye related matters = 911 to the vet, always.
 
I understand the urgency. The drops fixed her eyes nearly completely; still some mild discharge in one but the squinting was 100% gone less than two hours after the drops. No other symptoms since. We contacted her vet and she agreed that since we are watching her very very closely (checks when I wake up, before I leave for school, when I get home, before dinner, and before I go to bed) and continuing the drops she can wait until the 15th.

I’ve lost Guineas to illnesses before, and please believe me when I say it’s not something I take lightly in the least, I know how ugly it is and how quickly they go. Right now she is lying on my chest purring and licking my arm while I try to type.
 
For anyone wondering, miss Stick went to the vet today. The vet says she’s in perfect health and if there was anything in the eye they can’t see it anymore.
 
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