Some of my RES have I believe a vitiman A deficiency. They eyes are swolen shut. They cannot eat, so no way to fix this problem through diet. A woman I know suggested to get vitamin A gelcaps poke a hole in the gelcap and force feed the gel to the turtles. Anyone here think this is fine? Is there something else I should do? If in fact I should then how do you force feed a turtle. I was assuming to maybe just pry it's little mouth open and squirt the gel in the mouth. Or would it be possibly affective to just squirt the gel on the eyes? When I get this problem fixed anyone know what foods are high in vitamin A? BTW I am already using the Zoo Med turtle eye drops it contains an oil based vitamin A and it's not working. I already know I will get suggestions to take this $3 turtle to the vet. (I know I risk getting flaming replies about this) but get realistic it's not like RES are an endangered species. I want to cure them and I will buy what I have to do so and I know a vet I could buy the meds from if someone here knows what meds it needs. Thank you very much for any replies I will recieve on this issue.

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