Eye damage - I'm worrying and waiting for the vet

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My yearling managed to get whacked in the eye, she now has a very swollen eye and a milky vertical stripe across it.

Has anyone has a horse with eye trauma, will the milkyness go?

Sat here crunching my nails.
 
So no advise but have my everything crossed that it is not seriouse, and sending healing <<<<VIBES>>>>
 
My horse had a problem with his eye not so long ago and he had done the same thing, bashed his eye and it was very swollen, to the point where he could not even open his eye.
His eye was just streaming, by the morning it had gone down 100% and his eye was wide open.

Eyes are such sensitive parts and if they get a bash then they will go like this.

Hope this puts you at ease a little, but they do go like that.

Hope it all goes well with the vet.

xx
 
She did this last night, I bathed with optrex and it was more closed this morning and this vertical milky stripe on her eyeball is really quite worrying
 
I always consider anything to do with damage to eyes, or the horse with a half closed eye is really a veterinary emergency, and as such should be treated asap. I had a fellow livery whose horse lost an eye as a result of a delay in treatment, and recently a horse on our yard had an attack of uveitis and was quite bad with it, although she summoned the vet immediately. Not trying to worry you and I'm sure your vet will diagnose and reassure, but for future reference this type of injury really does require the vet immediately. I hope she is okay xxx
 
Did you say you had called the vet? Time is of the essence with eye traumas.

I don't know for sure what it could be, but my now 2 year old, bailey, had a swollen eye last November. It turned out that he had suffered an eye trauma; his cornea was punctured *we think* by a bramble. He had a corneal ulcer and uveitus to go with it. His eye reacted abnormally in the treatment we had (first it seemed to go, then it came back, then it wouldn't heal, then it go hugely painful and we ended up at the RVC). Luckily *touch wood* we now appear to be over the eye troubles and he has the faintest of scars on his cornea; we estimate that he has probably lost between 1 and 5% of his vision, but essentially he is completely normal (for Bailey anyway).

The person on here who was a huge help to me both with info, experience and support was Box_of_Frogs and Butterbean. You can always PM me if you want help of any kind, I know what it is like.

Hopefully, the vet will just say that it is something minor, but always best to get them out for eyes. As my vet said to me, with horses, "you just don't mess around when it comes to eyes."

(((Hugs)))
 
Mine came in not so long ago with swollen eye so bathed it and left till morning. Huge in morning
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so got vet and he'd spiked himself right in middle of eye. The vet could see hole and trauma. There was milkiness there but with treatment went down rapidly and milkiness disappeared and the hole healed up. It took about 2 weeks to go completely but the horse seemed fine once swelling had gone down.
Good luck
 
To follow up - milkyness is bruising

She is now on anti inflammtories, a drug to open the iris so it keeps moving and good old chloromycetin to stop any infections.

All being well she should be fine.
 
get the vet soon as. in the mean time put her on bute for the swelling and pain and wash her eye out with sterile water!
 
Err the vets been? Thats why I now have all the products to whack in the eye!!

Bute molecules are too large to help the eye, only finadyne can cross the blood barrier to help swelling in the eyes.
 
Dont err me! Sorry read your post wrong did not know the vet had been and yes bute does work coz thats what the vet give me for my girls eye!
 
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