Allocations from the dog's eyes can be mucous and purulent. Both these symptoms signal the presence of a health problem with the pet. Slime occurs more often due to eye irritation when a foreign body or allergen enters. Purulent discharges are more dangerous and speak of inflammatory processes in the animal's body.
Why do you fester your eyes?
Purulent discharge is a symptom of one of the diseases:
- Conjunctivitis due to the development of a bacterial or fungal infection. If the dog does not help in time, the infection can spread, causing sepsis.
- Viral diseases - enteritis, plague , rabies and others. Extremely dangerous diseases, leading to the death of the animal.
- Injury of the eye, which can happen during a walk or even inside the walls of the house.
- Chronic diseases, such as blockage of lacrimal ducts, congenital or acquired due to trauma, eyelid reversal, diseases of internal organs.
Self-determination of the reason why the dog has festering eyes, and especially treatment is a difficult task. With improper diagnosis or, worse, ignoring the symptom, the dog can only get worse, even to death. Therefore, at the first manifestations of purulent discharge from the eyes, you need to quickly take your pet to the veterinarian.
First aid
Before you go to the vet to determine why the dog's eyes are festering, and how to treat it, you can provide feasible first aid. This will somewhat ease the condition of the animal, but it will not become a full-fledged treatment. Therefore, at the first opportunity, you need to show the pet to a specialist.
To domestic methods of treating a dog that has festering eyes, it is possible to include rinsing with a gauze pad moistened in water or eye care liquid, instillation with preparations of a broad antibacterial spectrum (Iris, Ciprovet, Sofraks). Collect pus should be cleaned periodically with a sterile gauze swab.
Treatment of purulent discharge
When visiting a doctor, he is primarily obliged to determine the reason why the dog's eyes are festering, and to tell how to treat this condition. With allergic flow from the eyes, an antihistamine will be prescribed. If the cause is in bacteria, an antibiotic is needed.
Viral conjunctivitis requires long-term treatment, and the antibiotic does not help at all. In the case of chronic diseases, drugs for improving immunity, vitamins and mineral complexes are usually prescribed, and special conditions for caring for animals are specified.