Hi Everyone,
I have a 18 month old Beagle called buddy
about 2 months ago i woke up one morning and noticed buddy had one eye completely shut and would only open it a little bit. when he did open it slightly i noticed it was a little red and his third eyelid was covering it a bit.
we phoned the Vets and had an appointment immediately and when we arrived buddy was taken in and had both his eyes examined. the vet checked his eye pressures, the open eye was 37 and the closed eye was 27. the normal range for eye pressure in dogs is between 12-22 so this suggested buddy has Glaucoma.
The vet explained there are 2 different types of Glaucoma - Secondary and Primary.
Secondary glaucoma - is self inflicted so a truma has happend causing the angles behind the eye that control pressure are blocked down to buddy possibly getting dust in them a causing a blockage ect.
Primary Glaucoma - is genetic, in the dogs DNA.
the Vet checked the angles to see if they were working and looked normal in order to rule out Secondary Glaucoma and they looked fine. no sign of Secondary glaucoma being the cause. He prescribed eye drops to reduce the pressure as soon as possible as high eye pressure can damage his eyes.
this then determined that it must be Primary Glaucoma, to make sure Buddy then had a DNA test.
The DNA test then came back as CLEAR. so Primary Glaucoma musnt be the cause.
This then left me puzzled.
The vet said it is still glaucoma due to his eye pressures being High at the time he was tested but i dont see how this is the case when all other tests have been done and have came back negative. the only thing suggesting buddy has glaucoma was his eye pressures being higher than normal on that morning we took him to the vets.
since then buddy has had a check up on his eyes and his eye pressures are back in the normal range of 12-22.
since the initial incident of us waking up and buddy having his eyes closed 2 months ago... yesterday i was sat down on the sofa watching telly and the same thing happens to him. he slowly starts to close the same eye he had closed that morning. he wont open it.
i called the vets and we had an appointment again straight away, this time it was a different vet that looked at his eyes and he found a cornea scratch.
we have been prescribed more eye drops to help heal the scratch.
im now wondering if it was the cornea scratch all along and the elevated eye pressures was just a result of this or maybe stress as buddy hates going to the vets because when he was only 6 months old he had steroid responsive Myositis.
it would be great if someone could shine some light on the situation for us as at the moment we dont know what to think.
Thank you
I have a 18 month old Beagle called buddy
about 2 months ago i woke up one morning and noticed buddy had one eye completely shut and would only open it a little bit. when he did open it slightly i noticed it was a little red and his third eyelid was covering it a bit.
we phoned the Vets and had an appointment immediately and when we arrived buddy was taken in and had both his eyes examined. the vet checked his eye pressures, the open eye was 37 and the closed eye was 27. the normal range for eye pressure in dogs is between 12-22 so this suggested buddy has Glaucoma.
The vet explained there are 2 different types of Glaucoma - Secondary and Primary.
Secondary glaucoma - is self inflicted so a truma has happend causing the angles behind the eye that control pressure are blocked down to buddy possibly getting dust in them a causing a blockage ect.
Primary Glaucoma - is genetic, in the dogs DNA.
the Vet checked the angles to see if they were working and looked normal in order to rule out Secondary Glaucoma and they looked fine. no sign of Secondary glaucoma being the cause. He prescribed eye drops to reduce the pressure as soon as possible as high eye pressure can damage his eyes.
this then determined that it must be Primary Glaucoma, to make sure Buddy then had a DNA test.
The DNA test then came back as CLEAR. so Primary Glaucoma musnt be the cause.
This then left me puzzled.
The vet said it is still glaucoma due to his eye pressures being High at the time he was tested but i dont see how this is the case when all other tests have been done and have came back negative. the only thing suggesting buddy has glaucoma was his eye pressures being higher than normal on that morning we took him to the vets.
since then buddy has had a check up on his eyes and his eye pressures are back in the normal range of 12-22.
since the initial incident of us waking up and buddy having his eyes closed 2 months ago... yesterday i was sat down on the sofa watching telly and the same thing happens to him. he slowly starts to close the same eye he had closed that morning. he wont open it.
i called the vets and we had an appointment again straight away, this time it was a different vet that looked at his eyes and he found a cornea scratch.
we have been prescribed more eye drops to help heal the scratch.
im now wondering if it was the cornea scratch all along and the elevated eye pressures was just a result of this or maybe stress as buddy hates going to the vets because when he was only 6 months old he had steroid responsive Myositis.
it would be great if someone could shine some light on the situation for us as at the moment we dont know what to think.
Thank you