How to treat conjunctivitis in reptiles without spectacles?
Conjunctivitis in turtles and lizards without spectacles can be treated with topical eye ointment. Snakes and lizards with spectacles need surgery to drain the abscess and flush the eye with an antibiotic solution. Some affected reptiles, especially turtles, may need supplemental vitamin A.
What are the clinical procedures for reptile disease?
The successful diagnosis and treatment of reptile diseases requires proper restraint and performance of a variety of clinical techniques. Although the principles are similar to those used for domestic animals, there are a number of reptile-specific peculiarities.
Can a reptile be anesthetized for a procedure?
Given the improvements in reptile sedation and anesthesia, even manageable reptiles may be preferentially sedated or anesthetized for procedures that would otherwise take longer to accomplish and cause unnecessary stress or discomfort. It is possible that sedatives and anesthetics may affect clinical pathologic results, especially hematology.
What to do if a lizard has an abscess in its eye?
It may result from the spread of infectious stomatitis from the mouth. Conjunctivitis in turtles and lizards without spectacles can be treated with topical eye ointment. Snakes and lizards with spectacles need surgery to drain the abscess and flush the eye with an antibiotic solution.
What can I do for reptiles with moveable eyes?
A topical application of a non-depolarizing relaxant can be used in reptiles with moveable eyelids, something your vet is probably already familiar with in examining birds eyes. In spectacled species, injections of curare will be needed. Lizards and chelonians have a nictitating (third) eyelid, as do crocodiles.
What does it mean when a reptile’s eye is bulging?
There is nothing more terrifying for a reptile keeper than to see their reptile’s eye bulging out or drooping. Fortunately, not all such bulging or distensions are serious. Unfortunately, many are. ©2001 Melissa Kaplan Eye Basics The reptile eye is similar in many ways to the mammalian eye.
How does a vet flush a horse’s eye?
The vet flushes the duct by running a small tube up through the horse’s nose into the end of the channel. Saline will be introduced into the ducts which will usually clear the blockage. If you are watching, you will know it has worked as you see fluid bubble up from the eye like a fountain.
What happens to a reptilian eye after a bite?
Trauma may be mild abrasions from rubbing on cage surfaces to lacerations that may heal on their own or with topical antibiotics, to more severe lid lacerations requiring surgical closure for proper healing. Bite wounds from live prey can be deep enough to destroy the globe, requiring enucleation or removal of the eye.
