Cataracts Treatment

Question by Rattie: Scratch on my rat’s eye or something else?
Since my rat Edgar has had a stroke recently, I’ve been a little worried that he is over-vigorously grooming the paralysed/unresponsive side of his face. The nose and eye on that side both bleed fairly regularly, perhaps due to his forceful grooming.

Tonight whilst carrying him downstairs to investigate the house I noticed that his eye on the affected side was an odd shape, sort of squared off almost. Closer inspection showed some kind of bump on his eye in the form of a raised white line. The eye also seems rather dull and almost dry-looking at times.

I am not too worried about his vision, as he has never really been able to see too well anyway because of his colouration, but does the eye pose any other health risks to him if it IS damaged?

Is it likely that he accidentally scratched it during grooming or could it actually be a cataract? How do I tell the difference?

I don’t want to have his eye removed/operated on as it is a stressful surgical procedure upon an animal that isn’t really young any more, but if it’s likely to cause him serious harm then I might have to consider it.

I’m looking for peoples’ opinions before I take him to the vets about it so that I can get an idea of what we’re faced with and what to say to the vet in the first place, but I’ll certainly be taking him so there’s no need to remind me to do that.
1) HE’S A BOY.
2) IT’S 1:00 AM

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Answer by Jade
Don’t ask people on Yahoo Answers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Take her to the clinic, the vet! Just take care of that scratch dude!

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Question by aaron_goodman15: There is something wrong with my dog’s eye…?
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My dog is about age 14 and is a cocker spaniel.
Both of his eyes have turned a hazy gray color (i think it’s cataract).
But, today, around and on his right eye there was this meukas/puss looking stuff covering his eye, on the outside and inside, all over it.
I wiped it off.
Does anyone know what this might be?

Note I can not take him to a vet.
Nothing serious has happened to him, but he is getting old and can no longer hold his bladder in, can hardly jump, and has bad hearing, and runs into things every now and then =\.

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Answer by jayz_tier02
Well of course best is to the vet but it could be dry eye or something more severe. at least keep it clean and warm compress until you can take to the vet

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Question by Nicole H: there is something wrong with my cats eye?
my kitten was recently diagnosed with FIP- they took a fluid sample from his lungs and used that as their form of diagnosis, so it wasn’t formal but the vet said they are almost positive that is what he has. aside from that, I have been noticing that his eyes sort of glow- if that makes any sense. They seem more reflective and I cant really see much of the color in his eyes. I just took a closer look and it appears that his right eye has some sort of cluster inside. It just looks like many tiny specks all over his eye. I am wondering if this may be a symptom of FIP and if not, could someone please tell me what this may be? I have already researched glacoma and cataracts and it does not seem like it would be either because his eyes are not cloudy, they just glow and have those specks. Also from the symptoms I described would you say that he could be going blind?

Best answer:

Answer by sunshine10
Did they send the fluid to a lab?
Does your cat have a fever 99% of fip cats have a fever
You need to do the titer test for this.
Was your cat tested for felv/fiv..
Most cats get the wet form of fip but the fluid accumulates more in the abdomen.
Here is my advice knowing what i do know about fip and cats..
If your vet is wrong and the cat doesn’t have fip you need to find out before your cat dies what is really wrong….the only way to be totally sure it’s fip is to do an autopsy after the cat dies..we don’t want to do that so what you need to do is…
fip titer test..it’s a simple blood test. It can’t tell you 100% that the cat does have it but it can tell you if the cat doesn’t have it.
I had a sick kitten…it was literally dying…she would not eat or drink for weeks..after thinking that’s what the cat had after all other tests were done we did the fip titer test..it showed the cat did NOT have it and what she did have was bad virus that she finally over came and got better.
IF YOUR VET HAS NOT DONE AN FIP TITER TEST YOU MUST FIND A NEW VET.

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Question by Lady Kix: My cat’s eye is half closed… Is there something wrong?
I have a female tabby short hair(named Dorito) who is about 8 or 9 years old, spayed after having quite a few litters, and is overweight. Not obese, but she’s a fatty. She gained the weight after she was spayed.

For the past few years, she has been keeping her left eye closed, or more often, half-closed, while the other is quite open. Or she’ll just squint both eyes. That’s pretty much how her face is most of the time. If she’s startled, she’ll open both eyes completely, but she more often than not either squints or has her left eye half closed.

What could cause this? Nerve damage? Laziness?

There’s no fluid, puss, swelling, nothing what-so-ever to indicate a problem, other than the squinting itself. Her eyes are clear from stray hair, debris, cataracts, etc.

Her last few litters of kittens died to unknown reasons. I’m not sure if this may help at all. I believe whatever it was came from inside my cat through nursing, because we had kept a kitten(named Jo-Jo) from her second litter, who lived well. However, when Jo-Jo had her first litter, they all died as well.. And these were in different houses, so they weren’t exposed to the same environments. I believe whatever had caused Dorito’s last few litters to die was also affecting Jo-Jo’s kittens and was hereditary, but didn’t effect the mothers at all. I have no idea if it’s related, but just throwing that in there.

Jo-Jo has since been given away to another family.

Should I get my kitty checked out, or is she just being lazy?

Best answer:

Answer by SANDRA d
take ur cat to the vet(pet’s doctor)

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Question by Hallie.!: Is it cataracts or something?
My mom says when she looks out her left eye, every things clear, but out her right eye, it’s blurry and double vision. What is it? She thought maybe cataracts…

Best answer:

Answer by Michael C
Does she wear glasses? If I were her I would see and opthamologist, they should be able to resolve any vision problems she is having and maybe she just needs glasses or an upgrade in the glasses prescription she already has. I hope this helped. MC

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