Blooming horse

[beh]

So the horse has managed to pick up an eye infection which has left his eye gunky and nasty looking

Vet came and gave us some eye drops to be given 2-3 times a day...... but the problem is I can't get the bottle even close to his eye to administer them

Anyone have any ideas of how to get them in? We were thinking about washing an old Rescue Remedy spray bottle out and putting the eye stuff in that then hopefully giving his eye a squirt! But do you think that would just freak him out too much?

Any help/ideas much appreciated

Jess
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[Flame_]

Could you ask the vet for some cream instead?

 

[beh]

i dont honestly know if you can get an eye cream? I will give the vets a call tomorrow. Thanks

Jess
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P.s but i did manage to get some in tonight

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[cyrilsmum]

We had the same problem last summer, only thing we could do was wait until his head was in his bucket and aim and squirt the drops at his eye. Very hit and miss but we must have got some in along the way as it cleared up. If we tried to get close with the drops we couldn't see him for dust!

 

[Box_Of_Frogs]

Jess - be VERY VERY careful getting ointment into your horse's eye! My boy developed a very nasty eye condition but we were slowly winning the battle. He needed drops/cream in his eye 4 times a day and the staff where he was in full livery put it in most of the week. I don't blame them but at some point, someone stabbed him in the eye with the sharp end of the bloody tube and didn't tell me they had done it so we didn't realise we needed to immediately change his meds. I expect he just jerked when they weren't expecting it but the end result of that one split second is that we lost the battle and he had to have his eye removed. If you need to put ointment in, wash and rinse your hands and put a dollop of the ointment on your finger. Then squish your soft, blunt FINGER into his eye! The vets do it by gently squeezing the eye so that the lower eyelid droops, then they lay a line of cream/drops into the little bag that is created. But you need to know what you're doing and you need a very obliging horse! The clean finger is the safest option!

 

[beh]

Oh god you have just scared me lol

The eye drops (like water) he has at the moment are in a small plastic bottle with a soft rubber squeezy end, so hopefully that decreases the chance of me gouging out his eye, we do baby wipe our hands before and after (jacket potatoes + eye drops= not so nice if you get me

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It's just I can't really get close so we have just gone to wiping the eye with warm water until we can come up with another plan.

Gah.... Bloody horses

Thanks for replying

Jess
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