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epiphora, tearing eye in a dwarf rabbit, pet health and welfare educational for
animal lovers, excerpts from The
Glamorous Vets, Singapore, sponsored by AsiaHomes
Internet. The rabbit has a tearing eye.  "Was
it mange?" the Owner asked. He had used hydrocortisone cream to
treat the hair loss around the eye lid of the right eye. He had read
about mange in the web pages of the world wide web. "It would not be scabies," I said. "The other eye, the nose, the feet were all clean. He restrained the gentle rabbit while I scraped the hair away.  There
were three scratch spots and two small wounds above the eye lid. An
antibiotic and anti-itch injection was given. The Owner complained that
the rabbit's left eye was still giving out tears. What could be
the problem? He emailed to me an article on veterinary
problems in the rabbit's eyes, sourced from the world wide web. "It could be some foreign body, like hair, inside the lower eyelid, causing irritation and hence tearing," I said. "It would need anaesthesia to flush out the foreign body." This would be too stressful for the rabbit. It could also be due to the obstruction of the nasolacrimal duct. This means that the tear duct is blocked. An anaesthetic would be required to probe the tear duct as the rabbit would not just let the vet handle the eyelid. I gave him a bottle of antibiotic eye drop to use to flush out any foreign body and to clear the infections. No news from him for one week. When I called him, he said the tearing had stopped. The hair would regrow. |
