One of my collareds is not opening one of his eyes. A few days ago he got some sand stuck in it and i had to get it out, now I dont know why hes not opening one of his eyes. What do I do?
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Anything to flush an eye out?
platinumtlc
Jul 20, 2005 11:34 AM
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PHEve
Jul 20, 2005 11:53 AM
You may have irratated it a bit!
Usually you will see them do a strage thing, BULGE their EYE BALLS out, thats how they usually get sand and stuff out .
You may want to leave the eye closed, don't force it open, and use a warm soaking wet cotton ball and just wring it out over his eye. You could dab it gently with the wet cotton ball but I would not PUSH or apply pressure, maybe something still in there and it will scratch the eye.
If his eye stays shut for any length of time (days) I would let a Vet look at it.
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PHEve/ Eve
platinumtlc
Jul 20, 2005 07:14 PM
I used a qtip thing and water. I got it out yesterday and today it happened again. Its only happening to one eye, the other eye he has no problem with and nothing gets stuck. Maybe there is not enough lubrication in his left eye to push out sand and stuff?
PHEve
Jul 20, 2005 09:21 PM
May want to get him off the sand and see if the eye clears up. If not like I said, may want to call a Vet, could just be some sort of infection.
Hard to know without seeing it! I sure hope he will be okay real soon, let us know how he makes out. Just keep it clean like your doing!
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PHEve/ Eve
Reptoman
Jul 21, 2005 09:24 AM
I agree with Eve, listen there seems to be an infection that affects collards in the eyes. I have a Dickersonea which was on sand and then changed over too carpet (astro-turf) with the thought that this was sand in the eye. Turns out it was an infection, please get him too the vet, not to be an alarmist, Some of my other collard lizard friends have also obsevrved this before. If you have extremely fine sand in your cage this might be the culprit, but I am concerned based on what I have seen with collards, aparently this eye infection does not get better, so I would take eve's advice, if after a couple cays and an attempt to dislog what we all think is a grain of sand or two, I would get him/her to the vet. Unfortunately this infection causes blindness and eventually death of untreated. I wonder if any other collard keepers out here have also obsrved this in their collards as well? There nust be some contributing factor to causing this infection, but it's not clear what that is. Also a normal healthy collard for the most part are totally capable of clearing derbis from they eye. With rareity do they have a piece of derbis they cannot rid themselves of. I noticed mine continually trying to clear his eye but upon examination I could not find any derbis, eventaully they eye was closed more often than open and by that time he already was ill. So if it's been more than three or 4 days, I'd say get him to the vet.......I hope I am not sounding like an alarmist but unless you can observe some sand or derbis in the eye I would be suspicuous that this is more than what it appears to be........Cheers, and good luck.
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