Echoezra
Established Member
Ok guys, panicky mom time.
I came home from work and my son told me that Zelig has had his eye closed for hours. I looked and sure enough his left eye was closed. Not only closed but like totally sucked in to the socket like not bulging out at all. So, here's me freaking.
Ok so my son said he had hand sprayed him. I filled it with warm water and did it again. He didnt open it.
So then I soaked a cotton swab with colloidal silver and gently swabbed it across the closed eye.
Is there anything else that I can try, to help him feel better?
Should I maybe shut their UVB light down for tomorrow? Maybe if its irritated he might appreciate it a little darker in there?
He seemed fine this morning. Both eyes were open when I fed him before work.
So my first thoughts were: maybe a hornworm knocked his eye?? He usually bas deadly aim, and always grabbed bugs by the head, but lately he hasnt been so careful, and has been grabbing them in the middle which does leave their heads free for swinging at eyes.
Or less likely, maybe from shedding??? (But so far this time only his tail has shed yesterday, nothing near his eye has been flakey in a while and doesn't appear to be now either.)
Very improbably he could have rubbed it on a leaf or vine but he's usually never clumsy and has had that same plant in there for a long time.
Sigh. If only it was a foot. I hate eyeballs and was dreading if I ever ended up with eye issues. And my poor sweetheart too..
- I mean, thank god it's him, if it was Zaphod he wouldn't be so tolerant of me poking at his eyeball! But gosh I was sure the first injury would be the big clumsy lug on the right. Lol.
I came home from work and my son told me that Zelig has had his eye closed for hours. I looked and sure enough his left eye was closed. Not only closed but like totally sucked in to the socket like not bulging out at all. So, here's me freaking.
Ok so my son said he had hand sprayed him. I filled it with warm water and did it again. He didnt open it.
So then I soaked a cotton swab with colloidal silver and gently swabbed it across the closed eye.
Is there anything else that I can try, to help him feel better?
Should I maybe shut their UVB light down for tomorrow? Maybe if its irritated he might appreciate it a little darker in there?
He seemed fine this morning. Both eyes were open when I fed him before work.
So my first thoughts were: maybe a hornworm knocked his eye?? He usually bas deadly aim, and always grabbed bugs by the head, but lately he hasnt been so careful, and has been grabbing them in the middle which does leave their heads free for swinging at eyes.
Or less likely, maybe from shedding??? (But so far this time only his tail has shed yesterday, nothing near his eye has been flakey in a while and doesn't appear to be now either.)
Very improbably he could have rubbed it on a leaf or vine but he's usually never clumsy and has had that same plant in there for a long time.
Sigh. If only it was a foot. I hate eyeballs and was dreading if I ever ended up with eye issues. And my poor sweetheart too..
- I mean, thank god it's him, if it was Zaphod he wouldn't be so tolerant of me poking at his eyeball! But gosh I was sure the first injury would be the big clumsy lug on the right. Lol.
