Hi
My 4 mth old Scottie has had a 'sticky' eye for a while - more like heavy sleepy dust just in the morning - cleaned away with a mild saline. Over the last few days this has really increased to horrible gunky snotty stuff, I have been using Brolene since wednesday night as this was advised by the lady who runs the dog classes where i go.

This morning it is still the same, no better or worse and still just in one eye. I have rung the vets and they are closed until Tuesday so was wondering if anyone could suggest anything else i could buy or try. She is teething really bad at the moment with one big tooth out this morning and another just hanging by a thread, could it be due to this??? ears are fine and shes eating ok.

many thanks

Vets have to provide 24 hour emergency cover and should be able to tell you over the phone whether this constitutes an emergency requiring examination and treatment or will be able to give you the best advise as to what to do meantime if it is not and they do not wish to see you until Tuesday.

thanks, i know they do provide emergency cover but just wanted to know if there was anything else recommended that i could buy from the chemist or try first. I do feel vets sometimes dont always want to advise on the phone as theres no money made! Will give them a call though.

If they are advising you it is not an emergency and are forgoing an emergency consultation fee I'm sure they will be happy to advise on a stopgap :)

As expected no telephone advise - receptionist spoke to vet and she said the vet needs to see her! (all xtra chrgs of being the weekend) Think i will try chloramphenicol from the chemist first.

it's been great since chloramphenical stopped being a POM.  If your dog hasn't had conjunctivitis I would get the dog looked at by the vet as eyes are irreplacable but now I generally just buy optrex infected eye drops when my dog has got gunky eyes.

Our GR had a very mucky eye when he first came to us from rescue - our vet diagnosed it as a blocked tear duct which was eventualy flushed out when he went in for neutering so  your dog's problem may not just be conjunctivitis.

The ointment from the vet used to clear it up for a week or so and then it was back again until he had his duct flushed out - and since then his eye has stayed clear.

well since the post on saturday things have cleared up! Mabel lost one big tooth in the morning and two little ones late afternoon (after big play session with her sister who came back to visit). By the evening the eye looked clear, i had put more Brolene in it at lunchtime and during the afternoon it looked mucky but as i said by the evening you wouldn't have known anything had been wrong.

Still clear today - could it just have been a teething thing???? or just coincidence???

It could also be entropian.  (eyelids turning inwards)

can that reoccur?

When my pup was small I was alerted to things not being well by recurring conjuctivitis-like symptoms.  We were initially given antibiotic eye drops by a naieve vet who knew no better.  It was only after I changed vets that I knew it was entropian.  Yes, I suppose it came and went.  Do his eyelashes all show and can you roll the eyelid outwards?