Swollen eyelid associated with foleyella sp infection in a chameleon…

[kinyonga]

“The general recommendation for treatment of subcutaneous nematodes is surgical removal”…
https://avmajournals.avma.org/downloadpdf/view/journals/javma/209/5/javma.1996.209.05.972.pdf

If the load is heavy, the treatment with anti parasitic medications that follows this needs to be done carefully. Live parasites become “garbage” when they are killed…and the body has to get rid of it…if it’s too large a load,the body can’t cope with it and the chameleon will likely die.

Some more sis…
https://www.uoguelph.ca/ahl/microfilaria-panther-chameleon
https://jhms.kglmeridian.com/view/journals/hpms/17/3/article-p104.xml

 

[LizardLurkin]

Oh no, the mental image of seeing the worm squirming against the eyelid

 

[kinyonga]

I had a chameleon many many years ago that had a parasite/worm in its eye. The vet (not my regular vet..my vet was away) didn’t listen to me when I told him that’s what I suspected and treated it like a bacterial infection and the chameleon died. I had called the day it died and begged him to see it.. but he insisted he was right. The autopsy revealed the real reason for the eye issue…the parasite in the eye was just one of many in the poor little chameleon.

 

[LizardLurkin]

That is awful. It's such a thing I would never imagine, so I can see why the vet would be stubborn, however, I wish they'd allow themselves to be more experimental to suggestions like yours.
What made you suspect worms in its eye to begin with? Did you see the squirming? Was it w/c?

 

[kinyonga]

You asked…”What made you suspect worms in its eye to begin with?”…it was along long time ago. I remember the eye globe/lid being swollen huge and I think someone who saw it said it could be from a parasite.

 

[LizardLurkin]

I'm so used to GI parasites that I never consider the more surface level ones like that. New thing to be conscious about. I know it was a long time ago, but it's still sad to have lost a pet in that way.