Eye issue

[OneAcreFarm]

One of my does, Claire, has this white, patchy stuff on her bottom eyelid. It isn't discharge and it won't come off. The eyelid looks a bit inflamed as well....



Anyone seen this before? :shock:

 

[MamaSheepdog]

That's a new one. :?

I have no idea what it might be- but I would try applying Blu-kote to it since that will treat bacterial and fungal infections. Spraying a cotton swab and dabbing it on would probably be the best way to apply it without getting it in her eye itself.

It doesn't look ulcerated like you would see with a herpes type lesion, but I would check her nether regions just to be sure she doesn't have some type of venereal disease that transferred to her eyelid.

 

[Miss M]

I have never seen anything like that. Almost looks like a calcium deposit. :shock:

Anything applied that close to the eye, I would think, will work its way into the eye. It would definitely be so for human eyes. Could Vetericyn work on this?

 

[MamaSheepdog]

Anything applied that close to the eye, I would think, will work its way into the eye.

Good point. I looked up gentian violet (active ingredient in Blu-kote) and found this article about staining the lens of the eye for cataract surgery:

http://www.eyeworld.org/article.php?sid ... rphologic=

However, this site says that it can irritate the mucous membranes if used in high concentrations:

http://www.dermnetnz.org/treatments/gentian-violet.html