Runny eyes in yorkie

Re: Runny eyes in yorkie

Anthony Todd — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 17:36:23 GMT

[quote user="Rob Davis"]I'm sure you've ruled out trichiasis already, but being a Yorkie....[/quote]

No I just meant hairs from an inch or so away, way down the nose etc., not actually on the eyelid at all, just ordinary facial hair which impinges on the eyelids, often ALL the time.

Re: Runny eyes in yorkie

Rob Davis — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 09:27:04 GMT

[quote user="Anthony Todd"]

It couldn't just be the dog's facial hair touching the eyes? I used to trim the hair away in so many of those facially hirsute dogs.

[sorry if it's too obvious, but it was so common and must have irritated the dogs. No corneal change that I could ever see though]

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Crikey.... I've just given Anthony 5 stars! I'm sure you've ruled out trichiasis already, but being a Yorkie....

Re: Runny eyes in yorkie

Anthony Todd — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:51:17 GMT

It couldn't just be the dog's facial hair touching the eyes? I used to trim the hair away in so many of those facially hirsute dogs.

[sorry if it's too obvious, but it was so common and must have irritated the dogs. No corneal change that I could ever see though]

Re: Runny eyes in yorkie

fluffygirl — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 16:21:09 GMT

I would be ruling out micropuncta in this dog first especially if there is no evidence of corneal pathology. Distichiasis/trichiasis/ectopic cilia usually cause corneal irritation if they are the problem. Allergic conjunctivitis is actually quite unusual.

Re: Runny eyes in yorkie

Gareth C. — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:56:17 GMT

so...

runny eyes = epiphoria.

ephoria = reduced drainage or overproduction of tears or both

STT >25mm/min significant start lookling for cause eg as mentioned above distichia etc or allergic dz.

drainage sound ok from the flushing,

if mild and a Yorkie then may be hard to pin down but likley a combination of comformation and trichiasis.

Re: Runny eyes in yorkie

Mark Hedberg — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:45:40 GMT

Anecdote alert:

Twice I had a case like this, (one eye, two different dogs) and what worked was doing a ga and just aggressively flushing the daylights out of the affected eye, then piling in a bunch of viscotears or gel tears or something nice and goopy. I never found anything but the eye cleared up, so I assume it was a grain of dirt or a fine hair or something I just didn't see with all the water flushing.

It wasn't an infection, just a nonspecific irritation that I never found the cause of...but it didn't come back!

(so like a good vet, I didn't argue.)

Re: Runny eyes in yorkie

ChrisBVSc — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 13:55:12 GMT

Could be allergy/irritant related, have you looked under magnification for distichia or ectopic cilia? Does it have any entropion? If you can't find any evidence of these things and the dog isn't bothered maybe try persuading the owner to ignore it too (unless it really is quite severe!)

Chris.