> GGA lister Jim Chapman speedily sent me copies of a May 2000 Reptiles
> article
> by Stephen Barten, DVM, entitled My, What Big Eyes You Have! Retained
>
> Spectacles & Related Problems in Snakes, and a great article from The
> Vivarium (vol 10, #6) by Roger Klingenberg, DVM, entitled Reptile
> Vision: A
> View To Survival.
>
> On 4/20 I tried the Small Animal Clinic in Davis, CA but the
> non-domestic vet
> on call was euthanizing an animal and apparently could not return my
> call or,
> if he did, I could have been online.
Those damn residents - off fiddling around . . . ;) That clinic can get
quite busy at times.
> What to do:
> ???? Use special Neosporin eye ointment: at periphery of eye
> only?
> Use artificial tears
> Use Bausch & Lomb Sensitive Eyes Plus...a saline solution
> with
> potassium, a component of natural tears which contains: "A sterile,
> isotonic, buffered solution that contains boric acid, sodium borate,
> potassium chloride, sodium chloride, preserved with polyaminopropyl
> biguanide
> (0.00003%) and edetate disodium (0.025%)." No Sorbic Acid and No
> Thimerosal.
>
> Pachydactylus tigrinus' mouths looked healthy...no mouth rot evident
> on
> 4/9/01. If a sub-brille protozoal infection, what is the recommended
> treatment?
OK here's the deal - the overwhealming majority of creams and ointments
meant for normal eyes are inefective at getting into this space.
Systemic drugs are the name of the game. Many would choose something
that would kill flagellates, and can be given orally. Now if that
doesn't wirk I would give Have your Opthalmologist Give Chris Murphy ar
UW a call. There is a way to access the space under the brille.
Suffice it to say that it involves anesthesia and some might small sharp
instruments. But let us not put the mule before the cart.
Talk w/your vet about the systemics. Have your optho friend call Chris,
or alternatively, I would be willing to chat w/him/her. I am not an
opthalmologist, but I know a small bit about gecko medicine.
Keith
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