ericalucy
New Member
Hello,
I need help please diagnosing my tortoise, Bertie. About a month ago both of his eyes were red, puffy and completely swollen shut. He also stopped eating, possibly because he couldn’t see. After a few days of cleaning them with no improvement we took him to the vets where he was diagnosed with an eye infection and we were given some antibiotic eye cream that said cat/dog/rabbit drops on them and told to apply twice daily to reduce swelling. After a week of using these with absolutely zero improvement I purchased some repti turtle eye drops for Vitamin a deficiency and used these for another couple of weeks alongside the vet given drops and his eyes didn’t even slightly improve. For the past few days, I stopped using both of the aforementioned and started using only normal human eye drops, the sort I use for when my contact lenses get dry. Amazingly, both eyes have completely opened and his left eye is completely back to normal! The problem now is that his right eyeball is totally white! Can anybody help me figure out what the underlying problem here is?
Will be so grateful for any advice or help!
Thank you!
I need help please diagnosing my tortoise, Bertie. About a month ago both of his eyes were red, puffy and completely swollen shut. He also stopped eating, possibly because he couldn’t see. After a few days of cleaning them with no improvement we took him to the vets where he was diagnosed with an eye infection and we were given some antibiotic eye cream that said cat/dog/rabbit drops on them and told to apply twice daily to reduce swelling. After a week of using these with absolutely zero improvement I purchased some repti turtle eye drops for Vitamin a deficiency and used these for another couple of weeks alongside the vet given drops and his eyes didn’t even slightly improve. For the past few days, I stopped using both of the aforementioned and started using only normal human eye drops, the sort I use for when my contact lenses get dry. Amazingly, both eyes have completely opened and his left eye is completely back to normal! The problem now is that his right eyeball is totally white! Can anybody help me figure out what the underlying problem here is?
Will be so grateful for any advice or help!
Thank you!