Hi,

I got up this morning and Zac's eye's are swollen with yellow gunge in them i have been looking for information all morning and have come up with 'Dry eye' and 'Conjuctivitis'. I have bathed both eyes in warm water. I can't get into the vets untill tomorrow morning unless they get a cancelation tonight. I have posted a pic to see if anyone else has had this problem, also is there anything more i can do for him untill i get to the vets.



Thanks in advance for any advice.

Colette

One of my dogs eyes was the same when she had conguntivitis, it sweeled up coz she kept rubbing it.
Keep an eye ( scuse the pun ) on her and try make sure she dont rub it untill u get her to vets.
i bathed my dogs eye in luke warm water, cleaning it with cotton wool untill i got to the vets aswell.

make sure you use a differant piece of cotton wool on each eye as it will pass back and forth if you dont but it does looks like conjunctivitis, the vet will soon let you no your doing the best thing with the cleaning.

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Looks like conjunctivitus to me too! It should clear up within a week with drops from the vets, unless it's a more serious strain such as clymadial conjunctivitus. Likes been said; try and keep it clean, but use different pieces of cotton wool on each eye or you're just transfering the infection.

Thanks for the replys . I have been using clean cotton wool each time. Another question, can conjunctivitis in dogs be passed to us??
Thanks

It depends on the cause of the conjunctivitus. It could just be an allergic reaction which wouldn't be contagious but a virus or bacterial infection can be contagious to humans and other animals. Without knowing the cause its impossible to say.

I doubt it would be conjunctivitus on it's own, it could possibly be all down to entropion which is very, very common in Bulldog breeds.

Here's some information for you...

Hope this helps.

Instead of just warm water use salted water (saline solution ) the salt as an actibacterial use cooled down water from a boiled kettle this will be sterile , about half a mug and put about 1 tsp of normal salt into it let it disolve and use seperate pices of cotton wool for each eye whipping from the inside out . this wont clear up on its own though you will need drops or cream from the vets and will usually clear in 4-7 days depending on severity . can be caused just though a germ or dirt or sometimes in the summer our dogs get it through walking in long grass .

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