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What is a tear stain?

In the picture above, the brown area around Kiki's eyes is the tear stain. (This is when Kiki was more than seven months old, when the tear stain was the most serious, the black history was stripped out.)

The cause of tear stain formation?

The "culprit" of tear stains is the dog's tears. For some reasons, the dog's tears are secreted excessively, which can not be discharged from the lacrimal duct. After flowing out from the corner of the eye, the hair around the eyes is moistened. If not treated in time, it is easy to breed bacteria. The products of bacterial metabolism will change color, causing reddish-brown tear stains. So what causes the dog's tears to be secreted excessively?

1. Dietary reasons

include excessive salt intake and excessive consumption of high-protein red meat, which can easily cause dogs to get inflamed and lead to excessive tear secretion.

2. Dogs with protruding eyes of physiological

structure have strong tear secretion.

In short-nosed dogs, the nasolacrimal duct is narrow and tears cannot drain from the duct normally.

3. Diseases cause

ear mites, ear canal infection, eyelid entropion, nasolacrimal duct blockage, dacryoadenitis, etc. These diseases are easy to cause the outflow of dog tears.

Kiki's Tear Stain Problem

The Kiki is a Chihuahua with protruding eyes, which is often tearful, and the Kiki is a white-haired dog, which is particularly obvious when there are tear stains. The symptoms of tear stains will be aggravated if you are not careful about your diet. It is really a long-term combat mission to fight against Kiki's tear stains.

For Kiki tear stains, used methods:

1. Caused by ear mites

The dog's facial nerves are crossed, and the itching or pain deep in the ear canal caused by ear mites can stimulate lacrimal gland secretion, leading to excessive tears.

When Kiki first came home from the pet store, she had a serious ear mite infection and tear stains. After going to the pet hospital for treatment, her condition improved. Since then, she has developed the habit of cleaning Kiki's ear canal regularly, so as to reduce the tear stains caused by ear mites.

Kiki's Ear Canal Care Solution is not bad. It has a drip hose, which is not easy to hurt the dog's fragile ear canal by mistake, and it smells good.

2. Eye drops

Used special eye drops for pets to remove tear stains, containing vitamin E extract, regular use can help improve the blood circulation of the eyes, reduce the secretion of the eyes, the effect of use is acceptable, but Kiki eye drops are not very cooperative every time.

3. Wipe around the eyes

Be diligent in wiping around the eyes, avoid tears staying in the hair around the eyes for a long time, and use wrung warm towels and special eye wipes.

The effect of removing tear stains is general, because we are all office workers, it is impossible to wipe Kiki around the eyes every 2-3 hours, but the effect of removing eye dirt is good, especially when we get up early every day with more eye dirt, it is mild and does not stimulate the eyes.

4. Homemade food

Homemade fresh food for Kiki to play the role of diet conditioning, balanced nutrition, but also to change the taste of Kiki, improve food, generally will use purple potato, duck, pear and other ingredients, these three kinds of ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine, cool, clear fire, especially purple potato is rich in anthocyanins to help vision, anti-inflammatory effect.

In fact, honey water also has the effect of clearing fire, but Kiki is easy to eat diarrhea, here is not recommended to everyone.

At present, it is found that dietary conditioning is still effective.

5. Choice of dog food

Kiki Ma found that Kiki eating chicken, duck, fish dog food tear stains will be better, mutton, beef, venison, turkey, rabbit meat, ostrich meat these dog food tear stains are more serious, the higher the meat content, the more obvious.

Here are some of Kiki's dog foods with acceptable tear stains: Negis Salmon Flavor (Negis Mutton Flavor is not good, and there is a tear stain problem after eating), Brazil Taotao, caviare, Patfield Hair Beauty Formula, and Tianhengbao are also OK, but I don't like them very much.

Among them, the caviare is good, alkaline dog food, small particles, easy to digest and not inflamed, the proportion of calcium and phosphorus is appropriate, Kiki likes to eat, only 2 days for food exchange, reduce the discomfort caused by food exchange.

Sum up

With a dog like Kiki with big and protruding eyes, the prevention of tear stains should always be kept in mind.

Kiki doesn't like to drink water very much, so it's basically from the diet, plus the cleaning of the hair around the eyes, generally speaking, it can control Kiki to have a pair of bright, beautiful big eyes ~

In addition, the living environment of dogs should also be kept hygienic, and food bowls and water bowls should be cleaned in time to avoid eye infections caused by bacteria.