Eye issues can be something simple, to very
complex. If it is not clearing up from what the vet told you to do, I'd consider
another vet who has more background in eye issues. Some actually specialize in
them more than others. Your horses only has two. You don't want to lose either
one of them!
Had a reoccurring eye issue. Local vet had me
putting salve in it...cleared up, then would come back, clear up, them come
back. Finally took horse to a vet who had more eye experience. Horse had a
fungus in the eye, that if it had spread, it could have not only caused him to
lose the eye, but if it really spread, he could have died. I had to put
ointment in his eye for a week, every 3 hours, around the clock. I taught him to
stand still, by giving him a peppermint as soon as the ointment got in the eye.
Being a smart boy, he caught on quick, and would stand perfectly still, let me
put medication in eye (which had DMSO in it to carry medication deep into the
eye) , and then would stand there with eye shut, and lips moving, looking for
his mint. Got to where I never even had to put a halter on him. After a
week, fungus had diminished some, but not completely. He then spent a week at
vet hospital on an around the clock drip. They put a harness on him, with a pump
mounted on it, and a tube up along neck, then cut a slit in eye lid, so it
dripped into the eye. $1100 later, he was cured. (actually, a week at a vet
hospital, being checked around the clock, I figured $1100 was fairly
cheap) And, he has his eye, and I have him.
Yes, this was rare, but I just do not take any
chances with eye issues. So much can go wrong. Just not worth it to try to
diagnose it myself.
