Eye - Injury, abscess etc? Eye pic warning- Home :)

lilspaz68 · Feb 14, 2010

So I am allowed 2 good things then I must have 1 very bad thing happen. :shock:

Tepeu, my bully tilty girl. Always causing a fracas. Maybe someone fought back? Maybe this is glaucoma? Any ideas? It's not painful, she doesn't seem to really notice it even when I examined it.

Godmother · Feb 14, 2010

Poor girl, her eye looks shot. I have never had a rat with cataracts; is the difference that a cataract would cause clouding over the whole eye?

Moon · Feb 14, 2010

That doesn't look good to me.... is the eye protruding? The pics kind of make it look big...

lilspaz68 · Feb 14, 2010

It's the same size, no swelling just looks god awful.

Godmother · Feb 14, 2010

I seem to recall my vet saying that, in dogs or cats, they try to save the sight in the eye by use of scopolamine. I don't know how it works, but the aim is to prevent scarring. I guess it is not so urgent with rats, since they do fine with just one good eye.

Looks like blood inside the eye. Poor sweetheart.

jam · Feb 14, 2010

Very cataract-looking. Aww - poor cutie, very unfair.

jorats · Feb 14, 2010

I don't know... usually cataracts is the typical middle of the eye cloud. But my Captain looked more like a fog came over his eye and it didn't start in the middle but my vet confirmed a cataracts. But that one looks a big angry, like something is behind, an abscess?

Rattus · Feb 14, 2010

I'd get that cjecked, it doesnt look like cataracts to me, it's a bit funny looking..like theres something in behind there.

mamie · Feb 14, 2010

lol lilspaz68 wrong thread lol

and yes that looks like cataracks I know in dogs that's what it looks like

lilspaz68 · Feb 14, 2010

This is what I have seen in my past so you can see why I am flummoxed...

Just a small developing cataract

Extreme old age/cataracts

And this is aa new injury that ended up being a burst eyeball (most likely a scratch)

bleeding into the ocular bulb

Glaucoma in rats (big eye was removed)

Cityratt · Feb 14, 2010

could be uveitis - poor girl

lilspaz68 · Feb 14, 2010

Cityratt said:
could be uveitis - poor girl

I was thinking that! I gave her metacam and baytril...lets see how things are tomorrow. I also have a topical eye ointment or drops here as well.

Godmother · Feb 14, 2010

Good luck! That's what Tia had, with blood inside the eye. I think that it caused her glaucoma when the scar tissue blocked the flow of eye fluid.

lilspaz68 · Feb 15, 2010

Teppy's still totally herself today, gave me a few licks, a few struggles at restraint, the eye hasn't changed for the worse today either. And she loooves baytril AND metacam LOLOL

Typical Tepeu :roll:

dogsnbears · Feb 15, 2010

i have not dealt with cataracts before. but when flower was young her eye got scratched and i had to put drops in it. as well as oral baytril i think. i don't have pic when it was at it's worst but here it is healing. the vet thought she would lose her eye. it was red and cloudy when it started

jorats · Feb 15, 2010

That's really good news that she's staying in good spirits, might mean that it's not hurting her.

lilspaz68 · Feb 17, 2010

Spirits are still great, but the eye... :sick2:

Tepeu will either have her eye removed or my girl will be pts. by Friday.

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I am praying I hear back from my vet soon, but this is his day off :sad3:

Cityratt · Feb 17, 2010

oh no! Tepeu

is that conjunctiva Shel or is it ulcerated that badly?

((hugs))

lilspaz68 · Feb 17, 2010

Cityratt said:
oh no! Tepeu

is that conjunctiva Shel or is it ulcerated that badly?

((hugs))

its all under the surface...the swelling is getting bad. Dr Munn is going away on Feb 22 to March 16th, so there's no waiting and seeing if it resolves with Teppy.

She's only 15 months old. :sad3:

ashana · Feb 17, 2010

Looks to me like it is ulcerated.

Someone i know has a rat with a similar issue and he was put onto baytril and some antibiotic eye ointment for the eye and he seems to be improving greatly. They didn't want to put him through surgery as he has hind end degen and other issues so this was a lucky shot which seems to have worked.

Glad she is not seeming to be feeling pain with it.

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