Loess Hills
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We've been treating our little yearling filly, Cloud, for an eye infection for about a week. Our vet made a trip out last week to look at her because of an irritated eye. Treatment was an antibiotic ointment 3 times a day, banamine, and an eyedrop twice a day which dilated the eye. Well, she improved some, but after five days was still tearing constantly, and had begun to develop pus in the corner of the eye.
Today we hauled her to the vet again, and he was quite concerned. Apparently in about 90% of cases the irritation heals in a few days, but 10% of the time they don't. Vet is going to operate tomorrow to graft a piece of tissue into the corneal defect. The operation is to seal the corneal ulcer with a healthy piece of ocular tissue. So any prayers and positive thoughts would really be appreciated!
Poor little thing is in a huge stall missing her buddies, and her beautiful eye is almost shut with matter, tearing, and the ulcer in the lower part of the eye.
Has anyone ever had any experience with this problem? And what was the outcome?
Today we hauled her to the vet again, and he was quite concerned. Apparently in about 90% of cases the irritation heals in a few days, but 10% of the time they don't. Vet is going to operate tomorrow to graft a piece of tissue into the corneal defect. The operation is to seal the corneal ulcer with a healthy piece of ocular tissue. So any prayers and positive thoughts would really be appreciated!
Poor little thing is in a huge stall missing her buddies, and her beautiful eye is almost shut with matter, tearing, and the ulcer in the lower part of the eye.
Has anyone ever had any experience with this problem? And what was the outcome?