Chinchillas When taking a bath, be careful not to get sand into the eyes and it will cause inflammation. If you find that the hair around the eyes of your chinchillas at home is not smooth, the eyes always If it is red, it means that its eyes are inflamed. What should we do at this time? And what are the precautions during the treatment of chinchilla eye inflammation?
Symptoms of Chinchilla eye inflammation: Inflammation of the chinchilla's eyes will cause redness, swelling, and increased tears or secretions. It is common to see chinchilla eyes with white mucus, mucus, tears, or even swollen eyes that cannot be opened.
What should I do if my chinchilla's eyes are inflamed in the bath?
The cheapest solution is to buy chloramphenicol eye drops, and use clean cotton dipped in eye drops to gently rub the chinchilla's eyes Weekly wipe clean. Use eye drops to give Chinchilla 2 times a day, 2 to 3 drops each time, usually after 3 days, it will be fine. If you find that there is a lot of chinchilla's eye mucus before dripping, apply it with wet cotton first, wait for the mucus to soften and wipe it off before dripping. Drop the eye drops on the eyes first to soften the sputum around the eyes of the chinchilla, and then dip the eye drops with clean cotton. If the chinchilla is uncomfortable, stop the medication and send it to the vet for treatment.
Precautions during the treatment of chinchilla eye inflammation:
1. During the treatment of chinchilla eye inflammation, only grass-based staple food should be given, and snacks should be avoided to avoid the aggravation of anger symptoms.
2. Some friends use cotton swabs to apply the medicine, which aggravates the symptoms of chinchillas. The cotton swabs are very hard, but it is easy to hurt the eyes, so the situation will be more serious after the medicine is applied.
3. Eye drops should be put on the chinchilla's eyes first, slowly soften the eye smear around the eyes, then use a clean cotton dipped in eye drops, gently cover the eyes and wipe off the surrounding area 's eye stain.
4. After wiping off the chinchilla's eye stain, drop the eye drops into the eyes in the air, then hold the chinchilla for a while, and then put it back in the cage after it is dry. In order to avoid naughty chinchillas feeling that the eyes are moist and scratching or rubbing with their own hands, which will lead to secondary infection of the eyes.
5. In addition, most chinchillas cause eye diseases due to getting angry, but there are also a few that cause inflammation due to foreign objects entering the eyes, so don't rush to decide to give chinchillas something like apples. If your eyes are not good, it will be bad if you eat too many apples and then your stools will become soft. It is safer to change the staple food to hay for conditioning.
After reading the above content, have you mastered the treatment method for chinchilla eye inflammation? I hope that the above essential knowledge must be read carefully to avoid future use.