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[QUOTE="Spider8ait1994, post: 2024274, member: 101939"] [ATTACH type="full"]80822[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]80823[/ATTACH]I know it’s been a while but I have an update as of a few days ago that may have changed the thinking of what his eye issue actually is. Initially we thought it was a blocked tear duct due to the placement and the fact that fluid would drain with moderate applied pressure. We are not thinking that there is a chance the issue is actually a formation of tissue around a foreign object that had found its way in under the membrane. About 3 days ago he’d had another scratch at his eye and this time had managed to detach and pull out some of that mass which was certainly shocking. I cleaned him up, made sure any bleeding had stopped and flushed out the eye with some saline then gave him a dose of Meloxicam and an eye antibiotic cream. Got in contact with the vet that’s been treating him to share what he’d done and give them some info on the tissues characteristics. In both appearance and texture it looked a lot like blood clot/a mass of coagulated blood and I did note in the centre of all this was what appeared to be a single old scale. And thinking back I do remember right before all this started he WAS shedding around his eyes. He has another check up in the coming weeks where they’ll have a better look but I have noted that since this incident the swelling has gone down very significantly and he seems more active and able to see better. As a precaution I am going to for the meantime at least continue the eye cream but at this point I haven’t seen any signs of infection or further noticeable damage and it doesn’t seem to have swollen up again. Initially when he came to the vets for this the vet DID flush the eye out to check for debris and didn’t find anything so I’m thinking while he was shedding a scale came loose, dropped into his eye and he’s then blinked/rubbed it right back deep under the membrane where it’s gotten stuck. The images here are taken today so front on you can see the eyes are closer to the same size as opposed to the left one bulging out noticeably more. The eye itself is definitely cleared and opened up wider and additionally where in the previous photos I’ve been able to expose the mass by applying gentle pressure there not doesn’t appear to be any mass in there. [/QUOTE]
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