Cat scratched eye

[Saddlepatch]

My cat got into my beardie's cage this morning and it looks like she scratched his right eye.

Is there anything I can put on it to help the swelling/irritation go down? Or do I just leave it alone?

 

[AHBD]

Hi there....sorry that your poor beardie had this accident. Something that you can put in is raw, unpasteurized honey. The kind from a health food store or beekeeper so it's unpasteurized....it is an excellent antimicrobial and can be put directly in the eye. I used it in my own dragon's eye infection + it worked within 2 days. You can thin it down a bit with warm water, about 1 part honey, 3 part water and put it directly in the eye with a Q-tip or an eyedropper 2-3X a day. He should be fine.

 

[Saddlepatch]

Hi there....sorry that your poor beardie had this accident. Something that you can put in is raw, unpasteurized honey. The kind from a health food store or beekeeper so it's unpasteurized....it is an excellent antimicrobial and can be put directly in the eye. I used it in my own dragon's eye infection + it worked within 2 days. You can thin it down a bit with warm water, about 1 part honey, 3 part water and put it directly in the eye with a Q-tip or an eyedropper 2-3X a day. He should be fine.

Thanks, I'll try that. I put some saline on it already. He's also drooling from the right side of his mouth, do you know what could be causing that?

 

[AHBD]

Poor guy, he's probably in a bit of pain and letting his mouth hang open a bit. Is his beard still black ?

 

[Saddlepatch]

Poor guy, he's probably in a bit of pain and letting his mouth hang open a bit. Is his beard still black ?

Yeah. He's falling asleep right now. I have him wrapped in a burrito on a heat pad. Poor baby...

 

[SDragon]

How is he doing?

 

[kingofnobbys]

Poor little fellow , he doesn't look very happy and must be feeling really uncomfortable and sore.

There are very nasty bacteria and viruses on cat's claws.

I rescued a baby water skink who had a cat in hot pursuit of him about 5 years ago, he'd been clawed on his right eye and in the lower right jaw and developed a very nasty SI despite my best efforts to save him by immediately taking him a reptile vet who put him on pain relief and 2 courses of antibiotics (oral and injections). Was very traumatic injecting antibiotics into the shoulder of a skink who only weighted 8 gms - was so scared of impaling him if wriggled violently in the wrong direction.
After 6 months of intensive care by me under the vets supervision he seemed be thriving , and the decision was made to stop the antibiotics.
He was blind in the scratched eye and never able to handle hard food after the attack and became very sweet and tame and much loved by myself and my wife (our first pet lizard) .

2 months later he had a sudden relapse and was dead before I could get him to the vet , he actually died in my hand while I was on the phone arranging an urgent appointment to take him the vet.

As a matter of urgency - I'd have a good reptile vet check him out and get him started on antibiotics.

Better safe than sorry.

You could make a dilute betadeine solution (about the color of light tea) and bath the infected area with it every other day. The butadiene will help clean out injury and will help kill any germs on the surface.

 

[AHBD]

How is the beardie doing ? Hope he's getting better. I would definitely stick with honey as the choice for topical application. If you Google " raw honey as medicine" and " honey for wound care myth or science part 2 -E-vet" you'll read from Dr.s + vets that are using it where other treatments either don't work or don't work as quickly. The reason raw honey is superior is because it creates it's own hydrogen peroxide that is slowly released to kill bacteria and it keeps hard scabs from forming while healing and promoting tissue granulation....that's because it contains proteins + amino acids, something that no ointments have. I've used it on 2 badly scratched lizards eyes in the past, the first one healed in 2 days, the 2nd one healed in a week [ it had part of it's eyelid scratched off, but it healed so beautifully you couldn't tell there was a scar even ] So Google those topics....the one from the E-vet shows the most horrific wounds you could imagine that healed with honey. Scroll down past the writing.

Kingof knbby's, you really made a valiant effort to save a poor little critter and no doubt spent much time + money on him. I must add that 6 months on antibiotics is so long that the skink would have had all his natural immune system compromised as well as wipe out the friendly bacteria in his body. I'm truly surprised the vet would have kept any creature on the a.b's that long. It's a good chance that probably contributed to his eventual decline.

 

[Saddlepatch]

I used the unpasteurized honey + water mixture you recommended, and his eye healed up very nicely in 3 days. Thanks so much for the help! I'll be extra-careful with my cat from now on.

 

[AHBD]

I'm glad to hear that he's all healed up. The honey will work better than pretty much anything.