Eye Problem

[neverchaos]

Anyone know what problem with my panther's left eye?? I had apply the zoomed eye dop to it & It look like inflammation

 

[Alexl]

Those eyedrops probably won't help in this case. You need to visit a reptile vet with your chameleon. She already has a periorbital edema and the bulbus seems to be sunken in. Your vet can flush the eye, get a swab and take a blood sample to find the reason for this issue. It might be an eye infection, but it could even be a foreign body inside, an ascending infection from oral cavity or something else.

By the way, what's going on with her lower jaw? Does she often keep her mouth a little open and a little shifted to left side like this?

 

[Djturna4thakidz]

It looks pretty bad, a vet is in order.

 

[neverchaos]

Those eyedrops probably won't help in this case. You need to visit a reptile vet with your chameleon. She already has a periorbital edema and the bulbus seems to be sunken in. Your vet can flush the eye, get a swab and take a blood sample to find the reason for this issue. It might be an eye infection, but it could even be a foreign body inside, an ascending infection from oral cavity or something else.

By the way, what's going on with her lower jaw? Does she often keep her mouth a little open and a little shifted to left side like this?

Thanks, but the vet in Hong Kong doesn't know how to cure chameleon....

The lower jaw is a old hurt... she get hurt while transport to HK... but it's recovered already!

 

[Alexl]

Then you'd might ask your vet about calling a herp vet to advice via phone if there's no option to travel to a reptile vet. This is nothing you can treat at home properly without diagnosis and opportunities to flush, swab etc.

 

[neverchaos]

Then you'd might ask your vet about calling a herp vet to advice via phone if there's no option to travel to a reptile vet. This is nothing you can treat at home properly without diagnosis and opportunities to flush, swab etc.

Thanks alot for advise!

 

[Alexl]

Added quickly: I took a look at the ARAV-website, and you actually seem to have a vet specialized in reptiles in Hong Kong: http://www.arav.org/find-a-vet/#HongKong

 

[Littlehorn]

That Vet is well known to be useless. Never has anyone has a "real" successful case there, apart from turtle's shell rot or common respiratory problems.

 

[Lovereps]

That eye looks pretty bad.
Without an antibiotic I don't know how it can heal. Too often the infection is also in the sinuses and the only outward sign is the eye swelling.
If the jaw injury was not many months ago, then her jawbone might be infected, too.
The only home remedy that might be any help at all to the eye is to use a sterile saline solution for contact lens wearers and flush the eye, but it really looks much too severe for that.