Eye Injuries

All the ocular injuries are potentially dangerous. A small scratch in the surface of the eye, if it is left without treating, can be infected and become to the loss of vision. Do not have risks with the sight of your cat. If he get hurt in an eye, coordinate an appointment with the veterinarian in order that he examines him.

Is the eye out of orbit?
Is the surface of the eyeball damaged?
Is there blood or some strange body in the eye that makes him blink, half-close the eyelid, tearing or to avoid the light?   YES
First Aids.
Go to the veterinarian     NOW.

Is the closed eye as painless?
Has some changes been produced in his visual capacity?
Do the pupils have an abnormal aspect?   YES
Go to the veterinarian the same day.

Is the surface of the eye clouded or grayish?
Is the injected eye of blood?
It seems one of the eyes -or both – bigger than normal ? YES
Go to the veterinarian the same day.

Is there greenish or yellowish suppuration?
Is he a puppy that has not opened still the eyes?
Is there one great swelling of the tissue that surrounds the eye?
is the third eyelid of both eyes visible and covering them? YES
Go to the veterinarian within 24 hours.

Is there clear, colorless secretion?
Is it associated with sneezes or scrubbing the face? YES
Domestic treatment.

The eye is out of its cavity

1. Do not try to introduce it again
2. Cover it with a clean and humid fabric, or with a sponge steeped with salty water or with a over saturated solution of sugar. Hold it to the head with a wide bandage .
3. Keep the cat as calm as you can and go to the veterinarian immediately. (Every minute is precious in order to save the eye) .

Monitor Possible Shock

• Pale or whitish gums
• Agitated breathing
• Weak and accelerated pulse
• Coldness in the extremities
• General weakness

The cat blinks, half-closes the eyelid and avoids the light:

1. Lift up the top eyelid with the thumb. Look for strange bodies in the eye.
2. With the thumb of another hand, re-bring the low eyelid and look for remains or impurity.
3. If there is a strange body that is not fixed, remove it washing the eye with warm water. 
4. Another method consists of using a cotton ball moistened with water to make it come out.
5. If you cannot extract the object, cover the eye with a bandage to prevent  that more hurts are produced and go immediately to the veterinarian
6. If the foreign body is fixed, do not try to extract it. Bending the eye or put to the cat an Elizabethan collar and take him immediately to the veterinarian.

The eye is reddened, has the half-open eyelid and tearing but there is no strange body.

1. If the eye has received a scratch, cover it with a clean and humid cloth.
2. Prevent that the cat damage himself putting Elizabethan collar or bandaging to him its nails of the rudimentary "thumbs" of the front legs
3. Go to the veterinarian the same day.