Message Number: SG13362 | New FHL Archives SearchFrom: Sydney
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 17:48:55 -0700 (PDT)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Eye Injury
Message-ID: <18926678.1112836645278.JavaMail.nobody@magnesium.smartgroups.com>
One of the messages in the link Sukie put up is mine
about my ferret with a lacerated cornea. Since this
has come up twice recently, I thought I would post the
drops that were prescribed. In this case, the
laceration was bad enough that my ferret needed a
stitch in the cornea. She had general antibiotics
before surgery (not sure what). After surgery she was
given two sets of drops. The antibiotic was
tobramycin 0.3% solution 4 times a day. She also had
atropine 1% solution twice a day to keep her pupil
dilated for about two weeks I think. I don't know if
you would need that if there wasn't surgery. Then
because she was getting a little two much new blood
vessel growth after 2-3 weeks, she was put on a 1%
pred solution dor a while. I'm not sure how long on
that one. If you can get to a veterinary
opthalmologist, I recommend it. Getting the drops in
teeny little ferret eyes can be a challenge and the
chances of the whole drop getting in the eye were
slim, but apparently the opthalmologist accounted for
that since she warned me in advance.
I'm not a vet but hopefully this helps.
Sydney
--- dschwering@lisco.com wrote:
> George, one of our ferrets, has received a serious
> eye injury. According to our vet, he has a puncture
> of the cornea. She would like to use gentomycin eye
> drops in a 3% solution but wanted me to check on any
> contraindications with ferrets.
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