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Watery eye?

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On sunday I noticed Bijou's left eye had some small pieces of hay around it. I removed the pieces outside and at night his eye began to tear up. Yesterday it continued to tear up, it was not much, but it was something that was noticeable. It wasn't red, it wasn't cloudy, just like he was crying lightly. I took him to the vet this afternoon, he washed his eyes with saline solution and prescribed Visidic gel (Carbomer). He said there was no foreign body in his eye and told me to clean his eyes with saline solution twice a day for 3 days and apply the gel twice a day for 5 days. He said if any green discharge start to come out I should come back and he would prescribe an antibiotic. He said it was possibly some hay dust irritating his eye, he checked his teeth and everything was fine. Is that really the case? Should I continue with this treatment?

Other than that he is fine, he is eating normally, drinking water, running, his eye is not red, just a little teary.
 
Oh poor Bijou and thankfully you noticed in time
Piggies are very prone to hay poke injuries / dust etc
I’d continue with the treatment to make sure it clears up and heals
Not easy to do so if someone is about to help you you will find it easier
Hopefully Bijou’s eye will heal really quickly ❤️
 
Roselina said:
Oh poor Bijou and thankfully you noticed in time
Piggies are very prone to hay poke injuries / dust etc
I’d continue with the treatment to make sure it clears up and heals
Not easy to do so if someone is about to help you you will find it easier
Hopefully Bijou’s eye will heal really quickly ❤️
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Bijou isn't very happy about cleaning his eye, he grabs my hand often to stop. Unfortunately there is no one who can help me with this ☹️ but I am getting to clean it talking a lot to him.

Today I haven't had the opportunity to observe it properly. There is a wet part below the eye, I don't know if it's from the gel or from his tears. No other symptoms such as redness.

Is hay poke easy to deal?

Thank you ❤️
 
It doesn’t sound like he actually has haypoke. Just irritation probably from dust rather than an actual injury - ie no ulceration has formed (there would be a cloudy part in his eye if he had an ulcer) so he hadnt needed antibiotics.

The vet sounds to have asked you to wash it out to ensure there isn’t any dust left
 
Piggies&buns said:
It doesn’t sound like he actually has haypoke. Just irritation probably from dust rather than an actual injury - ie no ulceration has formed (there would be a cloudy part in his eye if he had an ulcer) so he hadnt needed antibiotics.

The vet sounds to have asked you to wash it out to ensure there isn’t any dust left
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Yes, there is no ulceration or anything other than the tears. If it's just dust I'm more relieved, the vet said there was no injury inside the eye.

If it is this, do you think he should be okay soon with this treatment?
 
naguya said:
Yes, there is no ulceration or anything other than the tears. If it's just dust I'm more relieved, the vet said there was no injury inside the eye.

If it is this, do you think he should be okay soon with this treatment?
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Yes I would think so - if the vet can’t find anything wrong……you’re just washing the eye and applying a lubricant.
If you see the eye does go cloudy then that is when an ulcer forms and that does require antibiotics. But in this case you would have seen that long before now given it’s been several days already (ulceration forms quite quickly - with one of the haypokes I’ve dealt with, I had checked on my boys and all was absolutely fine but literally 30 minutes later one boy had a very cloudy and watering eye. The injury had occurred while I was on the school run and it was obvious within minutes)
 
Piggies&buns said:
Yes I would think so - if the vet can’t find anything wrong……you’re just washing the eye and applying a lubricant.
If you see the eye does go cloudy then that is when an ulcer forms and that does require antibiotics. But in this case you would have seen that long before now given it’s been several days already (ulceration forms quite quickly - with one of the haypokes I’ve dealt with, I had checked on my boys and all was absolutely fine but literally 30 minutes later one boy had a very cloudy and watering eye. The injury had occurred while I was on the school run and it was obvious within minutes)
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Oh I see, I will keep an eye on any cloudy eye if it appears and return to vet. That must have been shocking, seeing the cloudy eye, I didn't know it appears so quickly! I would be so desperate!

Thank you again!
 
naguya said:
Oh I see, I will keep an eye on any cloudy eye if it appears and return to vet. That must have been shocking, seeing the cloudy eye, I didn't know it appears so quickly! I would be so desperate!

Thank you again!
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I’ve dealt with many haypokes over the decades, it’s turned into more of a ‘not again’ scenario rather than surprise!
 
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