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18-02-2015, 06:17 PM
Effective eye drops help please.
hi guys, long story short I have just found myself with an eight year old miniature poodle. Totally the opposite to any dog breeds I ever quite expected to own!As you can imagine being a poodle he has a string of health problems including a heart murmur. But the one thing I'm struggling to get to get to grips with (as well as the vets) is his eye problems. Most mornings he develops hard, dark crusty lumps on his eye lids, which are sometimes hard to remove. The vets have prescribed two eye drops which neither worked, and one which was a gel and cost a cosy £46 for the world's smallest tube! - this helped, but after a couple of weeks it's back.
Is there any off the counter eye drops, or treatments which you can recommend. I thought to try human eye drops but I'm worried they might cause more harm than good. The eyes don't irritate him but it's something I want to try and get on top of.
Any advice would be amazing!
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18-02-2015, 07:27 PM
I would bathe the eyes each morning with a warm saline solution so that is a pint of boiled water to a teaspoon of salt allowed to cool. This is a similar composition to tears and mildly antiseptic. I would use cotton wool soaked in the solution and use a separate piece for each eye to prevent cross contamination .
This should remove the crusting.
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18-02-2015, 07:30 PM
Originally Posted by twilightwolf 
hi guys, long story short I have just found myself with an eight year old miniature poodle. Totally the opposite to any dog breeds I ever quite expected to own!
As you can imagine being a poodle he has a string of health problems including a heart murmur. But the one thing I'm struggling to get to get to grips with (as well as the vets) is his eye problems. Most mornings he develops hard, dark crusty lumps on his eye lids, which are sometimes hard to remove. The vets have prescribed two eye drops which neither worked, and one which was a gel and cost a cosy £46 for the world's smallest tube! - this helped, but after a couple of weeks it's back.
Is there any off the counter eye drops, or treatments which you can recommend. I thought to try human eye drops but I'm worried they might cause more harm than good. The eyes don't irritate him but it's something I want to try and get on top of.
Any advice would be amazing!
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18-02-2015, 07:38 PM
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Location: Nr Ireland
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18-02-2015, 08:18 PM
Mine had just finished a course of ab's and is having Optrex rehydrating eye drops for dry eye twice a day.She does well on them with full permission from my vet of course
Always best to check.Good luck xx
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18-02-2015, 10:37 PM
He has currently made himself very at home and is sound asleep on my bed...
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Location: Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen Hungary
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