Hi Truss I had this problem with my tri male about two years ago. The vet gave it a name of a particular disease "? Syndrome" that I cannot now remember. Basically there had been some damage to the nerves in one side of the face that stopped him being able to close his eye. I noticed his eye was glassier looking than usual and when I tried to make him blink I found that he could not. I took him straight to the vet. He said there was little by way of treating it that he could do. It would heal in time but to give him Vitamin B complex. He also suggested vitamin E.
I had to be careful not to let my boy into situations where he could damage the eye itself. The vet would have sewn the eye lids shut if I had not been so experienced with the dogs, but he felt I could manage the condition without that surgery. He did say that my dog could end up with "dry eye" and may need drops. However the tear function was still working well when he checked that so he felt everything would right itself in time. I had to take George back to see him after a fortnight. In that time he had started to close his eye little. Within four weeks he was able to close the eye and the facial movements down the right side of his face started to return. He stopped dribbling his food and water out of his mouth by about six to eight weeks. He is back to normal now except that he has a slightly lopsided look to his expression. Most people do not notice anything. He is still very handsome. The outcome with George was much better than I first suspected. I thought he had a tumour behind the eye because of the way his eye looked. I thought he had lost the sight in that eye. We still do not know what caused it. We did have young puppies and they were prone to pulling on his ears that side of his head. It will always be a mystery. I hope all turns out as well as it did for my George. Marian Mynott Honeybet Cavaliers Cambridge UK. In message <004d01c1bcd6$ce329810$519c2a18@m5h2p5>, Truus Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Has anyone ever had or heard of a cavalier with facial paralysis? >A friend of mine called today and told me her cavalier has facial paralysis, he >can't close one eye, he can swallow but can't get the food to the back of his >throat so she has to feed him. The vet put him on thyroid medication and a low >dosage of prednisone. >She has asked me to post this question....if anyone had that problem with a dog, >what was the treatment and did the dog recover? >Please email me privately so that I can pass the information on to her. > >Truus Bennett > > >"Magic Commands": >to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?bodyT%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL >to start it up gain click here: >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?bodyT%20CKCS-L%20MAIL > > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. >Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html > >All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author. > -- Marian Mynott Honeybet Cavaliers http://www.honeybet.co.uk ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
