My 11 month old Oriental has got a sore right eye It is a little watery and she is keeping it half closed. It happened yesterday during a wrestle with one of my other cats as I watched it happen.

We took her to the Vet this morning to make sure her eye wasn't too badly scratched or anything. It wasn't and they just sent us away.

So do you think it will just heal itself? I guess if we get poked in our eye it heals. It just looks very sore!

Poor baby - my stud boy injured his eye in a playfight and the vet told me to keep an eye on it but it went all weepy and wouldn't heal so I used fucithalmic acid drops for about 4 days and it cleared up really well. I always have a tube of it ready, just in case!

Hope she gets better soon!

Lou
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if it's an infection they would have given you some fucithalmic but if it's just a lil scratch or a traumatised tear duct it would just be time and clean water nursing wipes.

Thanks. Yep if it don't start looking better then I'll get some drops.

oh yeah, they did say to bath it and keep it clean which i have done, man it was hard work, lol

If you think its mild conjunctivitis optrex infected eyes eyes would do the trick, if its more severe or you think there is a scratch your right in seeing the vet.

My rabbit suffers from conjunctivitis, when its bad the vet prescribes fucithalmac, if its not so bad he said the optrex infected is safe as long as i bring him in if it doesnt improve within a couple of days,

i'm sure it's fine but, careful with suggesting human things for pets sometimes people can get the wrong idea and use anything willy nilly thinking it's ok just because something else is.(for example: piriton is ok but neurophen isn't) best to get this advice to use said products by the vets and not on a public forum. especially with over the counter or prescription drugs for humans.

One of the best things that we have found for sore eyes with the dogs is a used tea bag, soothes and helps to heal dont know why but it works either that or our vet has always told us golden eye ointment

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one of the vets i used to go to swore by the golden eye ointment never used it myself it's just a broad spec antibiotic ointment for eyes. most of the others use the fucithalmic. i use tea bags myself depending on how bad it is. for horses as well!

yes, i have heard the used tea bag thing too, or maybe a cucumber slice kidding! anyways her eye is looking better today so things are improving at the moment so i am happy with that!

hi , i have just starting to use golden eye drops as i have 6 kittens with conjunctivitus and have already used fucithalmac but it didnt clear up the problem and my vet bill was building up. So i decided to give it a go.
Will let every body know how it goes with the drops