Giselle, In my previous e-mail I neglected to mention this cat I rescued had an injury to his head just above the eye that won't dilate and the vet said most likely this caused him to go blind in that eye.
Lorrie On 04-15, Giselle de Grandis wrote: > Karen, thanks for your reply. I'm not aware of any head injury but > that doesn't mean it couldn't have happened when I wasn't around. > Pixie is a little monkey and we have very steep stairs. The prospect > of a head injury or a slight stroke causing the unresponsive pupil is > upsetting but needs to be dealt with, I guess. I wonder what my vet > can/should/will do for her since the general approach to medicine > (human and animal) in the Netherlands, where I live, is "wait and > see". She's not on any meds and eats a tiny cube of tuna for cats > mixed with L-lysine and a drop of fish oil each morning. She grazes on > grain-free dry food for the rest of the day. > > Giselle > > ---------------------------- > > > > Message: 20 > > Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:24:41 -0400 > > From: "Karen Griffith" <griff...@frognet.net> > > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] One eye won't dilate > > To: <felvtalk@felineleukemia.org> > > Message-ID: <e652fa59b4dc4ddda9eba401f4fdd...@karenaxjwddhoj> > > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > > ? ? ? ?reply-type=original > > > > Giselle, > > > > You should probably take her in for an exam. ?This could be caused by a head > > injury from a fall, etc. (i.e.,what could have caused the head trauma or > > imbalance to cause such a bump), slight stroke, etc., all of which needs to > > have your vet take a quick look. ?Is she on any meds that could initiate > > such a response? ?(Very few meds will cause such a reaction.) > > > > Hope all turns out O.K. > > > > Karen Griffith > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Giselle de Grandis" <giselle.degran...@gmail.com> > > To: <felvtalk@felineleukemia.org> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 4:06 AM > > Subject: [Felvtalk] One eye won't dilate > > > > > >> This morning I noticed something strange about one of Pixie's eyes -- > >> it won't dilate in response to light like the other eye and the pupil > >> stays the size of a fat grain of rice. She's four years old. > >> > >> Does anyone know why this is happening? Does she need to see the vet? > >> My Google searches on this topic yield some scary results. > >> > >> Thanks for your help. > >> > >> Giselle > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
