MiriamAlice
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Hello all,
I'm new around here, basically stumbled across the forum whilst looking for information about chin eye problems.
I have a 4 year old chin named Jake.
Three weeks ago, his eye started squinting, and then the fur around it vanished (I guess he was scratching) and around his eye looked a bit red.
It wasn't weeping, or watery - he'd get a very small amount of white stuff in the corner.
His eye lid swelled up a bit and he became a bit more squinty over a few days.
I looked online and saw some advice about cleaning it with contact lens solution, so I gave this a go.
Touching around his eye or his eye didn't seem to cause him any distress or pain, and he stayed quite still and calm for me to clean his eye.
It seemed to improve, less redness, less swelling and the fur began to grow back, so I was hoping it was getting better.
He was still very squinty, and then I realised his eye looked sunken into his head. This really concerned me and I thought I should take him to see the vet.
The vet examined him thoroughly and Jake was so good! I know he was scared, but he was still and didn't nip either of us! (He's never bitten me, but you never know when they're scared).
He had dye put in his eye and lights shone in it and the vet was baffled.
He's pretty sure there is no infection - no redness, swelling etc
He's pretty happy his teeth are not the issue too.
He was concerned that maybe he'd sustained an injury - smacked his head and had had a 'black eye' or something. However he said he would expect to be able to feel something, and for other features of his face to be wonky.
He also ruled out nerve damage due to no other features being affected.
He said there's a possibility of there being something going on inside his skull - like a tumor - which horrified me!!
He gave me some drops for his eye in the chance that there was an infection or something, but he seemed pretty sure they wouldn't make a difference.
Has anyone out there had or heard of a similar thing happening??
At no time has his behavior, eating, drinking or pooping changed - I restricted his sand baths as I read if they have eye infections this can make them worse. But otherwise, he still comes out, still plays, jumps around, makes happy chin noises etc.
I'm just worried about his eye :-(
Any help or advice much appreciated!
Miriam
I'm new around here, basically stumbled across the forum whilst looking for information about chin eye problems.
I have a 4 year old chin named Jake.
Three weeks ago, his eye started squinting, and then the fur around it vanished (I guess he was scratching) and around his eye looked a bit red.
It wasn't weeping, or watery - he'd get a very small amount of white stuff in the corner.
His eye lid swelled up a bit and he became a bit more squinty over a few days.
I looked online and saw some advice about cleaning it with contact lens solution, so I gave this a go.
Touching around his eye or his eye didn't seem to cause him any distress or pain, and he stayed quite still and calm for me to clean his eye.
It seemed to improve, less redness, less swelling and the fur began to grow back, so I was hoping it was getting better.
He was still very squinty, and then I realised his eye looked sunken into his head. This really concerned me and I thought I should take him to see the vet.
The vet examined him thoroughly and Jake was so good! I know he was scared, but he was still and didn't nip either of us! (He's never bitten me, but you never know when they're scared).
He had dye put in his eye and lights shone in it and the vet was baffled.
He's pretty sure there is no infection - no redness, swelling etc
He's pretty happy his teeth are not the issue too.
He was concerned that maybe he'd sustained an injury - smacked his head and had had a 'black eye' or something. However he said he would expect to be able to feel something, and for other features of his face to be wonky.
He also ruled out nerve damage due to no other features being affected.
He said there's a possibility of there being something going on inside his skull - like a tumor - which horrified me!!
He gave me some drops for his eye in the chance that there was an infection or something, but he seemed pretty sure they wouldn't make a difference.
Has anyone out there had or heard of a similar thing happening??
At no time has his behavior, eating, drinking or pooping changed - I restricted his sand baths as I read if they have eye infections this can make them worse. But otherwise, he still comes out, still plays, jumps around, makes happy chin noises etc.
I'm just worried about his eye :-(
Any help or advice much appreciated!
Miriam
