Hello
After some advice on a 12month old Ridgeback with an eye problem,he has been to the vets twice for treatment but none of the wiser and after two months of differant treatments still the same condition,it looks like conjunctivitis that is what the vet treated him for, it is worse of a morning just after he has awaken then I clean them but has the day goes the build up of discharge in his both eyes comes back.

Don't be afraid to take him to a different vets for a second opinion if you are unhappy in that they are just treating the symptoms and not trying to find the cause. Are any of his eyelashes growing wrongly and touching his eyeball which could be causing an irritation? - this can be quite common in Ridgebacks.
Hope he improves soon. Sore eyes is horrible :(
Lara x

Distichiasis is a possibility. This as a second row of eye lashes which grow on the inside of the lid and rub on the eye causing inflamation.

Trichiasis is where the hair on the lid grows towards the eye and can give a similar effect.

A third option which I would have thought any vet would have spotted is Entropion. It is where the eye lid is to large and rolls inwards so the hair rubs on the eye.

Regards John

Entropion was the word I was trying to remember :) - I'd never heard of the other two!!
Lara x

In order of being commom I think Entropion is far away the most common. I saw a case of Distichiasis a few years ago in a Golden Retriever but I've never seen Trichiasis!

Course, there is a whole load of other things I've not seen as well!

Best wishes, John

A friend's dog has a really wierd condition of a patch of hair growing on the cornea. Just recently been removed....pick of litter of course :rolleyes: so now NBG for breeding.

Pardon me, serious thread I know, but does NBG mean what I think it means? :D

n = no g = good b should be easy to work out:D

Thought so :D

Ectopic cillia are also possible, where a hair on the lid is ingrowing. I had this happen and the vets missed it, as they were looking for stray hairs at the lid edges, and this was way up the lid!