Discussion on Small corneal ulcer
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Judy Henslee
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Username: judyhens
Post Number: 117
Registered: 1-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, Nov 1, 2007 - 10:51 pm: |   |
One of our horses was squinting one eye yesterday morning. He had been fine the night before. We immediately put antibiotic ointment and atropine in the eye and made an appointment with the vet at 1 yesterday. The vet felt that there had been some trauma with a resultant corneal ulcer. She thought it looked deep, my husband thought. She gave the horse Banamine and said to give Bute 2 gm. 1 X day, atropine 2 times/ day, and antibiotic ointment 4 or more times per day. By last night the horse had his eye completely open and it looked shiny and normal, without discharge. It still looks fine. No tearing, no squinting, no discharge. We are continuing the treatment as recommended. We are going to be out of town for about 36 hours over the weekend. We are nervous about people scratching his cornea with the medicine tube itself. How long do you normally continue treatment? I understand that one risk with eye problems is healing over when a bacterial infection is lurking in the wound...resulting in a horrible infection, worsening ulceration, etc. When do you typically see this happen? I.E. how long after the eye appears to be healed (healing) are we at risk for this happening? I tried to click on "more" in your article Dr. O., but my computer wouldn't go there. :-(
Any help would be appreciated. We will call the vet with an update tomorrow, but would appreciate your opinion. Our horses are like our children. I want all the info I can get!
Judy
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Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: dro
Post Number: 19469
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Friday, Nov 2, 2007 - 7:41 am: | |
Hello Judy,
Taking your questions in order:
1) In typical cases of corneal trauma I continue 2-3 days after all appears normal.
2) Corneal abscessation occurs when there is obvious inflammation and/or ulceration which would be seen as obvious corneal opacities and pain. Your description does not sound like this is a likely complication.
DrO
PS: I went and tried the search buttons Judy and they worked fine, check to see if your pop-up blocker is preventing display. |
