This morning I woke up to find my cham with a piece of skin attached to his eye. This looked to me like an infection or something, and knowing eyes can be lost in no time if the infection gets into the eye I called the vet immediately.

Before I could even take a photo of the eye I was told by my vet (over the phone as he lives over 1,000 miles away) to get the eye soaked with water and that it was probably a piece of old skin that got stuck due to low humidity.

After misting his eye for some minutes I returned the cham to his enclosure and 5 minutes later the piece of skin was gone, no antibiotics fortunately.

Here are the pics, so if anyone goes through the same problem, here's the easy cure.

Alex

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that's just skin? In the pics it looks sort of pusy. Is he using his eye OK now?

I hope all is well. That looked pretty nasty. I cant say i've ever run into that one yet either.....and I hope I never do.

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Noah @ 2by2

I have one of my panthers that seems to need much higher humidity levels than my others and if his humidity levels get low, his eyes will cloud up such like your chameleon (similar). A nice shower fixes it everytime. I have added a humidifier to his cage and this has helped the problem, but not altogether eliminated it should humidity levels drop again. Check your humidity levels, make sure he gets a lot of misting, and give frequent showers. See if this doesn't help the problem. I give my panther with these issues several showers a week. Sometimes every other day to help keep his eyes clear with a good hydration.

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Jenna
www.prismchameleons.com

To me it looked terrible as well, got really scared and feared for the worse (lost eye) but I guess the vet was right and it was just the remains of dead skin that fell right off whith the water.

I have the cham in the green house right now, so he will have tons of humidity inside.

He is using his eye perfectly now, like if nothing had eveer happened.

Thanks for everyones concern.

Alex

Yeah, same with one of my Sambava's which comes from the leeside of the mountain range and gets considerable more rainfall in Madagascar (east side of island). He seems to need a ton of more humidity than my other panthers. He'll be fine, just give him frequent showers and try to mist him more often as well.

It does look frightful thought doesn't it?

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Jenna
www.prismchameleons.com

My chameleon is having the same problem right now. But everytime I mist her she goes crazy! I'm making sure to use warm water also. The white gooey skin came off, but her eye is still closed and looks sucked in. I'm not sure what to do. And to make matters worse it is Sunday and there's no vets open!

Chrissy, mine didn't like the misting in the eye, but he didn't have no choice. Mist him for at least 5 minutes continuously and if it's the same problem mine had, it will come right off and his eye will be perfect.

I think that the first thing to try when there is an eye problem is flushing it out with a shower. Some people put them into the shower on a plant an just let it "rain" on them. Alot of times that is all that they need to flush their eye out.

Jerm

I've been misting her eye all morning until I had to go to a wedding. I closed all the windows, turned on her lights and covered part of her cage so the humidity would rise. Now that I'm home it's still closed. I misted it for about two mintues, then she climbed down her branch and sat there as I misted it again until she had enough. Now she's rubbing it along the branches. It looks like she's shedding around her eyes because her skin is a bit grey. Now she's basking but her eye is still closed. I'm not sure what to do at this point. I'll keep misting her and see how it goes.