Dog's eye diseases in life are often ignored by the owner. The dog can't speak. It can't express that its eyes are uncomfortable or its vision is beginning to blur. When the owner finds out, the eye diseases are often very serious. Today, I will share the prevention and treatment of eye diseases.
Causes of eye diseases in dogs
Both my Kuka and Hani have had eye inflammation. Here are some of the conditions that are particularly easy to cause eye inflammation in dogs.
Hypertrichosis around the eye
Excessive hair around the eyes causes the dog to shed tears, redness and inflammation. This condition is caused by the dog's lack of regular "beauty". The dog's hair will grow. If the hair is not regularly repaired, the growing hair will block the dog's vision, and the hair will enter the eyes. The dog's eyes suffer from hair for a long time, which will lead to eye diseases.
Therefore, we need to send the dog to the pet shop regularly for beauty treatment (at least once a month) to prevent the dog's hair from penetrating into the eyes and causing eye inflammation.
Improper washing and nursing operation
Dogs can't open their eyes suddenly after bathing, which is caused by improper washing and nursing, and this situation is very lethal to dogs'eyes. Dogs' washing and nursing products need to be diluted before they can be used. Many owners will bathe their dogs at home, often forgetting to dilute the washing and nursing products. Highly concentrated washing and nursing products enter dogs' eyes in the process of smearing. It can cause inflammation of the dog's eyes, and our daily diluted toiletries also need to avoid the dog's eyes as far as possible, in order to prevent the shower gel from entering the dog's eyes.
Due to improper washing and care, the dog's eyes can not be opened, swollen and inflamed. Parents must use special anti-inflammatory eye drops for pets to clean dog at least 2-3 times a day. They can not let it go. The residual shower gel in the dog's eyes will corrode the dog's eyes and cause greater harm.
Environmental changes lead to eye diseases.
The dog's individual is different, and the dog's eyes are sensitive parts, some dogs will be affected by the environment leading to eye disease, for example: my cool card in summer can not stay outdoors for a long time, hot weather, will cause its eyes are particularly red and swollen, so the hair around its eyes is also very rare, such as the spring pollen season. Some dogs have itchy eyes because of contact with floating pollen, which causes them to itch all the time, and eventually become inflamed.
What are the manifestations of eye diseases?
Here is a summary of the symptoms of dog eye disease, which is convenient for parents to observe the dog's eye condition in the future: the most common symptoms in daily life are that the dog keeps shedding tears (excluding the case of tears, suddenly shedding tears), the eyes are bloodshot (the whites of the eyes are full of blood), the eyes can not be opened, and the dog keeps scratching the eyes with its paws. The sudden appearance of yellow eye droppings in the canthus is a symptom of eye disease in dogs.
How is eye infection treated?
As for the treatment of dogs' eyes, I have divided them into two levels, and the owners can refer to them as appropriate.
Treatment of mild infection
As for the mild treatment, it is aimed at the condition that the dog's eyes are inflamed and red, and it can't open its eyes. We can treat it by ourselves. Take my Kuka as the reference object. Kuka's eyes and their sensitivity are particularly prone to inflammation and swelling. Therefore, Elizabeth circle, anti-inflammatory eye drops and gauze are always available at home. Elizabeth circle is to prevent it from scratching their eyes, causing more severe eye inflammation, anti-inflammatory eye drops need to go to the pet hospital to buy (my family has used two, 1, Jianda eye drops price around 35, 2, Runkang price around 50), gauze is used when cleaning the eyes.
We drop the eyedrops into the dog's eyes. The owner needs to gently press the dog's eyes with his fingers to assist the dog's eyelids to blink a few times. The purpose is to make the eyedrops fully clean in the dog's eyes, and then wipe off the foreign bodies with gauze. If there are too many foreign bodies, they can be washed several times. (Drop eye drops about 2-3 times a day), and reduce the frequency of eye drops in the later period.
Severe treatment
Dog's eyes begin to appear ulceration, corneal exfoliation or cataract, which is a severe eye disease, we can not treat it ourselves, we must go to the hospital! Let the professional doctor give the dog treatment, my friend's dog is corneal ulceration, go to the hospital after diagnosis, need surgery, but the dog is too old, anesthesia risk is very high, finally try local anesthesia (because the dog is very obedient and does not like to move, so it can be local anesthesia), the operation cost about 8000, and cooperate with the doctor after the operation. Now the eyes are recovering very well. Therefore, the dog's eye disease, I hope parents must pay attention to, if necessary, or go to the hospital to seek professional help!
Sum up
Hope that through this sharing can bring help to parents, the dog's eyes are very fragile, parents need to take good care of yo ~ when the treatment is good to go to the hospital for treatment! Don't wait until your dog can't see before it's too late to regret!
The above content is purely a summary of personal practical experience, for reference only.
