Moon's Graden

1) Nervous stress.  Flurry and Max have been spending evenings together.
The newness of it must be at least slightly stressful.

2) Grooming.  Max grooms Flurry's drippy eye a lot.  This may be mixing
cause and effect, though.  Max is likely to be grooming Flurry's eye BECAUSE
the fur gets matted.  Besides, one of the vets recommended gently massaging
her tear duct to help loosen obstructions.  What could be better than a soft
bunny-tongue massage?

3) Dust.  Maybe I need to keep house dust and hay dust at bay better, but
I'm not sure this is anything that has gotten worse lately.

4) Degradation.  The condition just worsens with time.

Anyone have any opinions or advice?  Flurry does have an ointment that I can
put in her eye when this happens.  I don't start using it right away,
because the eye often stops dripping on its own after a few days, and she
gets highly miffed when we grab her three times a day to stick ointment in
her eye.
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Roxanne had the same thing when I got her and it took quite a while (2 months)
to clear it up. She had an infection in her tear duct.

Did your vet flush the tear duct and take note of what came out? If not this
could be done to check if there is infection in there. Roxanne's eye ran clear
fluid as well as the infection was not at a serious stage. However, when the
duct was flushed some junk came out that made it clear there was infection. I
had the duct flushed several times, a couple of weeks apart while using
Gentocin drops the kind without stearoids. This cleared it up and now she has a
beautiful, bright, clear eye with no problems. If your vet is experienced the
flush can be done with no anesthic and only takes a moment. Roxanne was very
good about this and the vet used a topical freezing drop in her eye so the
procedure did not irritate (it isn't painful, just uncomfortable).

I think stress can make an infection that is not taken care of flare up as this
apparently happened to Roxanne - I mean going away and starting up again. It
was noted by her shelter care givers that it flared up when she was put in a
foster home and then again when she was returned to the shelter. (Sounds like
stress.)

I'm positive the grooming will be good. It at least will keep her face clean
and won't do any harm.

I doubt it is dust unless you have an alergic bun.

The condition may well worsen with time if it is an infection that is going
untreated. BTW, drops are better than ointment for tear ducts as they will run
into the duct much more effectively.

Another thing causing her eye problem *could* be her teeth. Are her front teeth
really good? Sometimes, teeth roots effect tear ducts.

Good luck with Flurry and you can e-mail me anytime.

Olga
P.S. My vet thought the tear duct may be scarred and might always clog but that
wasn't the case - so don't give up.

Another issue I've noticed is that Usagi will occasionally get urine
scald, and then the eye flares up.  Last go-round I ran 10 days of
bicillin, and it cleared up at both ends, as well as extremely
scrupulous hygiene.

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jrw

I think Marylee is the big proponent of HEPA filters.  Couldn't hurt.

Glad Flurry is getting groomed. That does sound like a great way to get
her tear duct gently massaged.

You may recall that 14-year-old Hans had a lifelong drippy eye, but it
never really bother *him.*

Nona

There's an alt.recovery.clutter???????? Well, if you don't see ME for awhile
look for me there! Hmmm, wonder if it could help...

Laurie (who's perpetually on the lookout for several things that were "right
here a minute ago.")

I've just learned by now to keep her eyes clean. There's an eye wipe
out there that I found at my local pet store that seems to do pretty
well. She still gets drippy eyes, but at least with the eye wipe, she
will get pissy but it won't be a big deal if I miss her once or twice.
With Gentocin, because it's an antibiotic, I have to keep it up three
times a day for ten days, and by the end of all of this I've got one
PISSED OFF Trixie...

And she's the cranky one of my three to begin with.

Cyd

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Sue, Flurry, and Max
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Flurry has about the roundest head I have ever seen.  In a book about lops
(awful book really), it says that round headed lops often have tear duct
problems.  BTW, it's always just one eye, and always the same one.

Thanks for the advice and the offer of help.
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Laurie, maybe you and I should visit? My stuff is always lost, too. I
thought it was because of alt.over.forty.     -Rhonda

JP

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Hi Sue,

My bun has a semi-blocked tear duct also.  And I too, can't pin down the
cause for it to run either.  I thought it was my smoking but when I quit
his eye still ran.  All I do is keep the area clean and dry.  I wash it
with a diluted saline solution, clean rinse and towel dry.  My vet
recommended the massage also.  He's had it flushed once.  I just keep
watching it to make sure the fluid isn't cloudy or yellow.  Best of luck
with Flurry.
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