Uevitis - Appaloosas

[sjp1]

Mine came in this morning with swollen eyelids and swollen glands and a big egg on his forehead which had a scrape on it.

He is an appy. He was in for the day as he always is, and I expected his eyelids to have gone down but they hadn't at half four this afternoon. He is very bright in himself, doesn't want to itch his eyes on me although he often does and was in a stress to get out to the field to eat!! All ours are in during the day and then turned out late afternoon for the night to come in again first thing in the morning.

So am now stressed it is uevitis. If his eyelids haven't reduced by tomorrow morning then I shall have the vets out. So am just wondering now - grass glands are grass glands. The puffiness is not above his eyes because if it was I would chalk it up to a metabolic issue, it is the actual eyelids. He is a few spot so has CSNB. Could he have banged his head which caused the egg and scrape and could this have caused his eyes to puff up? There is no particular tearing in his eyes and I can't see anything else sinister - no redness or pus etc. He does often itch his eyes on me and always has done.

Anyway, just wondering, shall get vets out tomorrow if eyelids still puffy anyway, but didn't know if anyone could shed any light?

 

[SEL]

My vets guidance was if the eye was swollen shut and wouldn't open after bathing with cool tea then to call them - same if it was red or puffy.

My snowcap is in a uv fly mask which she does her best to lose on a daily basis.

Let us know how he is this morning

 

[OLDGREYMARE]

Don't mess with horses eyes.Call the vet.My horse got uveitis and the vet said eyes are always an emergency.Sounds like an allergic reaction from what you describe.

 

[sjp1]

~So, vet came Saturday morning.

Happily not uevitis, but an allergic reaction! She thinks the oedema on his head was a different issue altogether so left us with eye ointment and a suggestion to put an icepack on his head!!

Luckily as he is SO accident prone he is fairly bomb proof for treating so used a Neo Ice bandage which YO's two small children thought made him look very dashing and much like a pirate and were keen for me to get him bandages in red and black ..............!!

Eyes cleared up fairly quickly - had given him a danilon first thing before she arrived which she said was right and continued with danilon for three days. I thought a second tube of eye ointment would be best (they are tiny) so got another the day before yesterday - all swelling gone now but there was inflamation in the eye.

I wonder what would have caused the allergic reaction?

Ours are in during the day - have now started turning him out in the evening with a fly mask and either I go back again to take it off or YO takes it off - don't think a night blind horse and a fly mask is a very good combination!!

 

[MasterBenedict]

My app had this (allergic reaction, swollen eyes) a few years ago. Pretty sure we narrowed it down to something the farmer had sprayed on the adjacent fields.

First days on left, after a few days on right. The orange is the dye the vets put in.

 

[SEL]

I leave my night blind snowcap in her flymask. She can't see anyway so I figure it doesn't matter!

It'll fall off if it catches on anything. She's ripped one to shreds in daylight before annoyingly.