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eye infection also

zackshawna Jun 25, 2003 11:02 PM

I posted last week on this also, now I have a picture of his eye. It seems to have spread to the other eye, do you think that I could get that ointment off the internet for his eyes? Does it look like bacterial or fungal?
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zackshawna Jun 25, 2003 11:04 PM

I'm having trouble with the pic hope this works
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zackshawna Jun 25, 2003 11:36 PM

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zackshawna Jun 28, 2003 01:10 AM

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zackshawna Jun 28, 2003 01:19 AM

trying to make these pics work
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Starling Jun 26, 2003 04:58 AM

Your pics don't work. What you SHOULD do is take your animal to a vet, ASAP. Eye infections are serious business in leos and require prompt veterinary treatment. No one here is a vet and even if we were couldn't diagnose your animal with any certainty online. Sure, you could try ordering an eye ointment over the internet, and it might work, or it might not and your animal could die because maybe what it really needed was a shot because the infection had spread inside and become systemic, poisoning the blood. Maybe you try the ointment, and by the time it arrives and you use it and you realize it isn't working, it is too late to save your animal even with veterinary care. When I got my first leo, a baby, it had an eye infection but I didn't realize it, it just wasn't eating. I kept calling the pet store (herps-only) and people there kept telling me it was normal. By the time they said to bring it in and they told me it had an eye infection, it had become systemic and even with care the animal died. I didn't even realize it had an infection, I just knew it never started eating. I felt really bad and wished I had known more, but I didn't, and I did the best I could knowing what I knew then. However you know your animal has an eye infection, I think you know you should take it to a vet, so do the right thing. If your leo dies or goes blind because you didn't give it the treatment it needed...well you don't want that to happen and you don't want it to be your fault.

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