My welsh springer spaniel has soreness in the corner of her eye. Of course it would happen on a Saturday night! The corner is very slightly swollen and I have seen her paw at it today. There is no discharge. I gently bathed in with cold boiled water and have put a Fucithalmic eye drop in, albeit they are a few weeks out of date.  Can anyone offer any thoughts please

How is your dog today.
Funny thing is my Patt had a very swollen eye yesterday as well and she was very sorry for  herself all day. As you mentioned, it had to be a Sat didn't it. I bathed it in cold boiled water and then bathed it with cotton wool soaked in golden eye drops ( liquid ) also out of date but better than nothing. This morning I fully expected to have to take her to the vets as if it was still bad I wouldn't want to leave it until Monday, but hey ho the eye was nearly open and not red at all, in fact it was very nearly normal. Just a little swelling of the lid.
I found a dead rabbit down our field and wondered if it had clobbered her when she caught it. I assume she was the guilty party !!!

(ps as the golden eye were out of date I didn't want to put them into her eye, so I just bathed the outside with the cotton wool soaked in it. You cannot take chances with an eye can you )

She may have something in the corner of her eye, or had at some point and it has scratched the surface of the eye, which is irritating her. If possible try and stop her pawing at it, do you have a buster collar in the house at all or know of anyone who has, that you could borrow one from?

Keep up the eye drops, with our pugs when they need drops we use Optrex infected eye drops (Chloramphenicol 0.5%) every hour for the 1st 24 hours then every 3 hours the second and third day. This usually knocks anything on the head asap.

However, and I really cant stress this enough, if you have any worries at all its best to see the vet. Eye problems can escalate very quickly.

Thanks for your thoughts. I used the drops, despite the date and she is much better today. No pawing at the eye and its much drier. I think it was watering and that caused it to be swollen.

Blimey, this topic is getting contagious.  :-(

At teatime today I noticed one of my Chi boys had one eye totally closed and watering.  On closer inspection I realised that just below the eye it was extremely swollen.  I already knew that the surgery had closed at 4pm but just couldn't leave it until tomorrow. 

When I phoned the hospital I spoke to a vet who informed me it was out of hours, so it was £85 before treatment.  I just asked to go right away.  With this breed I needed to know how bad it was.  She did a glaucoma test and it was fine.  She had put anaesthetic drops in prior to the test, and his eye miraculously opened.  Poor lad must have been in so much pain.

When she put the coloured drops in, a really big ulcer was showing at the bottom of the eye, where the swelling was.  I've got drops to be used twice a day.  I note someone has said they treat every hour   which I've never heard of in over 45 years with dogs.  Max being 3 times a day.

Anyway, eye problems please stop going through the CD members so fast!

Summer is a nightmare for dogs eyes!  In July one of my bitches had a sore eye and wouldnt open her mouth.  We went to the Vet straight away, and he suspected an abcess in her mouth, but she wouldnt let us look.  So we had anti-bios and a jab and 2 days later, her eye started to bulge, and we were referred to the Willows.  By this time (about 2 hours later) her eye was pushed out and she was in agony.  She had a huge cellulitis infection behind her eye, causing it to bulge outwards.

She spent 3 days there, having scans, loads of meds and eye drops etc and they put it down to a foreign body, maybe a grass seed etc.  She was very lucky that they managed to save her eye.  It was not looking good because it was pushed so far foward, her eyesight was being compromised. She had a contact lense fitted for a while was on anti-bios and drops for a month afterwards.

3 weeks ago after being discharged for the retrobular cellulitis, she ended up back there for 5 days, with a bad case of Uveitis, which came up about an hour after a walk one morning. She had every blood, urine, and poop test, under the sun checking for things from cancer, parasites, bacteria, etc and an abdominal ultrasound, trying to find out what caused it. All came back negative, clear or normal.  She has now been on 4 lots of eye drops 15 times a day, 2 lots of anti-bios and pain killers for 2 weeks and so far so good!  We are back tomorrow at Willows for another check up!  She is alot better thank the lord.  But we still dont know what caused it.  She will be weaned off the drugs and drops slowly and hopefully we will have no recurrance.  Its assumed that she came into contact with something that irritated her eyes.

So motto of the story, any suspected eye problems, get it checked as they can turn nasty very quickly!  :)

Wow Justine!  You should be our resident expert on eyes.  Your poor dog!  I am sending positive vibes.  I agree you have to be careful.  Over cautious even.  You're right, the sight is precious.