Templeton's eye

[hopefloats]

Templeton eye was red yesterday, like his eyelids, Not a lot of staining, today i tried to give him some treats he was grumpy..........looked into his eye a little more....

any ideas? he was neutered last week, he has been ok.... maybe he injured it? the start of something else?

 

[lilspaz68]

Inside his eyeball it was red?

 

[hopefloats]

no just the eye lid, is red like it is irritated

 

[hopefloats]

that looks like a scratch on his eye, if you see the red spot on the picture

 

[lilspaz68]

Yeah it does look like a little scratch. Just watch it to make sure it heals.

 

[hopefloats]

he is grumpy, I am going to get some baby asprin drops, which kind is best?

I am going to get that polysporin eye drops too. but i will wait for an answer on the drops before i go lol

 

[jorats]

I'd only do the eye drops, no aspirin.

 

[lilspaz68]

We are in chat hashing this out, and it seems that the colony has SDA...classic symptoms. Templeton has the eye issues (which he is scratching) and the cervical (neck) swelling. The vet is on board with helping hopefloats :thumbup:

 

[jorats]

Oh no! Will they all need to go on meds, boys and girls?

 

[lilspaz68]

Oh no! Will they all need to go on meds, boys and girls?

Peggy is off to get a whole boatload of meds from her wonderful vet.
She'll be picking up doxy, baytril, metacam and medicated drops for eyes.

 

[smilez_n_hugs]

Any idea how the rats came into contact with the virus?

 

[lilspaz68]

Any idea how the rats came into contact with the viru

We were trying to work that out, but she had to rush to the vets to get those meds.

 

[smilez_n_hugs]

Okay keep us posted. :hugs: to hope and try to stay strong for your babies.

 

[kscanuck785]

{{hugs}} to you peggy, I know how much you love your fur kids, be strong for them and come to us for support

 

[Godmother]

What an awful shock for you to have SDA in your colony. I am glad that you have a great vet who acted quickly to get you the meds you need. Keep us posted. Scritches to Templeton, and I hope he feels better soon.

 

[hopefloats]

it has been a question for over a week now, it started with the swelling of one rats neck, then two, but both had scars near them, took them to the vet last Thursday, she gave me meds for the whole group, the 5 in that colony. we had no other symptoms other than a minor hairless cyst, ear infections and lumps. outside of mild sneezing, which is a symptom. The cloudy eyes, conjunctivitis I think it is called, started two days ago on Templeton, his eyelids were reddish looking like he was rubbing them or had something in his eyes, which is also the time i found a lump on another rat neck same spot, today as you can see Templeton eye, and I checked his chin and the lumps have started, it was then I started asking Shelagh again. I told her he was grumpy and refusing food, i put ensure by him, he ran away from the bowl, he is 1.5lbs normally he dont resist food :laugh4: .I asked before but with only two having the symptoms, we kinda went on in another direction, today we were like wait a minute, who else has lumps? I told her that I think it is sdav, and boy she jumped into her knowledge base and they got me through my break down, i was in tears on the phone with the vet, and in chat. Mmak, and kscanuk were in there keeping me calm as well lol..

My vet, that i always go to for meds and surgeries, she isn't the new vet for neuters but she is my vet i will keep for everything else. I told her what Shelagh told me that I needed to fight off the signs we are now seeing, doxy, baytril, medicated eye drops, and metacam for swelling... she didnt even question, i explained what the symptoms we are seeing now and she agreed it sounds just like it . 2 hour drive total to get these meds, worse drive of my life today.

as you can see she gave me a lot of meds, baytril, metacam, eye drops and a large bottle of doxy mixed with val syrup......I am still trying to figure out exactly where it came from, my daughter worked at a vet one day, we are in and out of places, they have pet rats at a school so i may not know for sure. I have purchased cages lately so there is no telling really.

all i can say is if it was not for this guy mr. handsome twiggy I never would of thought check my rats necks for tumors/growths. Edgar is black, so it is hard to see it anything on him, now that i know it is there i can see it protruding from his neck. I just so happened to read on SDA on the ratguide a few weeks back, and read more over the last few days when I really started questioning. i had 5 of my boys neutered thursday, i picked up ludo last night you could tell he lost weight. so he also has some lumps forming along with some of my girls.


[url="http://www.rmca.org/Articles/sda.htm"]http://www.rmca.org/Articles/sda.htm[/url]

 

[Godmother]

Good luck battling this. Scary stuff. Shows how valuable the Rat Shack is at times of crisis!

 

[jorats]

Wishing you and your gang lots and lots of luck!!!!

 

[Joanne]

Wow. How scary for you! Here's hoping everyone will just feel lousy for a few days, and then bounce back. What is the swollen neck from? Lymph nodes?

 

[hopefloats]

There are some glands and lymph nodes that swell..... it make them look like they have a double chin almost...it is the bump directly under his ears, on his neck.....he had two large ones
sorry he is dark and my phone is dying......

it has went down half of what it was, he is almost through a week of it now........

Templeton is getting it worse feeling wise, they were just neutered though, his fur was all fluffy today, i knew something wasn't right along with his eye. but hopefully tomorrow i will see some improvement with them


They have all been medicated which is a fun task i must add..

It seems like the actual SDA virus wont really hurt them, it is the secondary infections and risk that do the damage, but since mine have been sneezing, ear infections, and lumps they are doing ok health wise...they have youth on their side. some are sleepy, ruffled and sneezing but i think i got it with them before it turned into something horrible.