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My gold tegu blowes bubbles out its left eye when she huffs and puffs. My vet does not to seem to know what is causing this . Any Ideas would be great . Thanks Russ

It stumps me too. An oral fistula maybe? In any case, consider getting a second opinion from another herp vet. Your vet will be able to help you with this or visit www.arav.com under links is herpvet connect.

Am Alligators will do this, and with some force too. I always attributed this to forcing air so hard in order to hiss that it backs up into the sinuses and out the eye. I am unaware of this phenomenon in lizards, but I would suppose it is non-pathogenic.
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My vet says It may be a blocked eye duct. She is eating fine , and acting like a normale gold tegu ,but she dose not bite.Thanks Russ

If the duct was blocked, then how would air get to the eye in the first place?
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"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."
Governor George W. Bush, Jr.

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
Calvin and Hobbes (Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink', 1991)

If it is indeed a blockage, then it would be elsewhere in the sinuses and the tear duct is the means of release.

Just forgot to note that if it wasn't clear, there is a duct from the eye to the nostrils. Tears drain into the nostrils under normal circumstances. Of course this is extrapolated from mammal anatomy and it is possible that this species is different.