How To Administering Eye Medication to Cat

Be sure that the drops, prepared and ointments for the eyes-but not its container- enter direct contact with the eyeball.

Eye Ointments

1. Tell to the cat soothing words. Put him on a table and wrap him with a towel if it is necessary.
2. Clean any secretion or ocular suppuration with a cotton piece in branch moistened with warm water.
3. With the thumb of a hand, lower the low eyelid. (This way you will leave space to deposit the ointment) .
4. With another hand, hold the head of the animal at the same time as the pipe of ointment. (This way you will prevent that the packing strikes the eye if the cat moves himself sharply)
5. Deposit a line of ointment in the space between the low eyelid and the eyeball. (The ointment will go out easier of the tube if you warm it before with your hands hands).
6. Close his eye. (It will do that the ointment spreads uniformly for the eye and the ocular basin. When they are cold, the ointments are in the habit of having a gray whitish aspect that, however, catches on and becomes .translucent after a few minutes by the corporal heat).
7. Praise the cat and give him a treat.

Eye Drops

1. Follow the previous instructions, but do not lower the eyelid low
2. To fall a drop on the top part of the eyeball.

Take care always that the packing of the collyrium doesn't make eye contact.