How treat mucky eyes

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Suby2

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My pony has developed mucky eyes over the past couple of days, possibly caused by the flies. The discharge is white. Am I right in thinking that the best thing to do is bathe with cooled boiled water?
 
Yes you can bathe with coolish boiled water, you might also add a bit of salt when the water is hot, so it's disolved before using. I use quite a few cotton wool balls in the water, wipe from the front corner to the back, then get another cotton wool ball and keep repeating.

Do this twice a day and if not improvement in a few days,then you might need eye drops if theres an infection setting in. Its more likely to be an allergy to flies though,my horse gets this, his eyes almost droop and look sore. A fly mask sorts out the problem.
 
Thank you for your reply. Vet is due on Tuesday for annual jabs so will have a chance to get things checked if need be. My guess is that is due to flies as they were particularly bad the last week or so. I have a fly mask I can use when the wind and rain go away!
 
When my horse has 'fly eyes' i do the same. sometimes after a ride at a show he will rub his head and eyes vigoursely on his hay net tied to the back of the trailer and they get weepy so we have a supply of optitrex eye drops which we store in the fridge for minor irritations.
 
Second tea bags! Pale skinned Appy who always gets gunky eyes when she dumps her fly mask. I soak tea bags & when cool soak cotton wool in the mix & bath her eyes in it.
 
SEL said:
Second tea bags! Pale skinned Appy who always gets gunky eyes when she dumps her fly mask. I soak tea bags & when cool soak cotton wool in the mix & bath her eyes in it.
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Now I've been told by our Y.O that tea bags can burn the skin, not sure how but that's what she says. I always used to do this up until that point.
 
OPtrex infected eye drops from the chemist I always have one in the fridge .
However if the eye is not visibly improving within an hour and a half you need the vet to check there's not a ulcer .
 
Strong black tea (cooled) is what vets advise usually as a preventative or alongside drops, I am always cautious to self diagnose when it is eyes though. Cold tea or tea bags do not burn.
 
Another suggestion.. my horse recently came in with an eye so swollen it was almost totally shut (I thought it was from the flies but now I think it was conjunctivitis) and I used Golden Eye eye gel (available from pharmacy) and kept her in until it completely cleared up. Took about 3 days but I think the gel helped!
 
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