Help Administration of eye drops in horses

RE: Help Administration of eye drops in horses

Kate Richardson — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:44:11 GMT

[quote user="Clare Tapsfield-Wright"]My horse could crack walnuts with his eyelids. [/quote]

Mine too!!!

RE: Help Administration of eye drops in horses

Clare Tapsfield-Wright — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 21:39:10 GMT

Thanks everyone , I’ve done my best and thankfully his eye seems fine now, still battling on as advised by the vet but we are both heartily sick of it now. Makes you more sympathetic with poor owner compliance and very impressed by the power of equine orbicularis muscles . My horse could crack walnuts with his eyelids.

RE: Help Administration of eye drops in horses

grumpyoldman — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 16:41:56 GMT

Its been a while but sub-conjunctival treatment tubes were useful ,if that is not an option alternate day subconjunctival injections with tetracyclines after a needle full of dom/torb . It may be easier to admin proxymetacain let it work for a few minutes then apply the topical you want to put in. Not an easy ask in a difficult horse though .

RE: Help Administration of eye drops in horses

Kate Richardson — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 15:45:09 GMT

No incompetency Claire, getting eye meds into a horse is super difficult. Even with the most amenable horse

RE: Help Administration of eye drops in horses

Clare Tapsfield-Wright — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 10:12:51 GMT

[quote user="Michael Woodhouse"]

How does he react to the twitch?

[/quote] I will if I have to but was checking it isn’t incompetency on my part !

RE: Help Administration of eye drops in horses

Emily Rainbow — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 08:00:03 GMT

Snap the needle off an insulin syringe and use it to administer drops - gets a good horizontal squirt going so you don’t have to try and rely on gravity for a laterally placed eye.

RE: Help Administration of eye drops in horses

Michael Woodhouse — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 00:02:27 GMT

How does he react to the twitch?

RE: Help Administration of eye drops in horses

Clare Tapsfield-Wright — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 21:47:34 GMT

Hi Linda, thanks for your reply and yes , he is a greedy cob. I’ve actually just watched four you tube videos and they contained some useful suggestions so I will have another go. Isnt the internet a wonderful thing on occasion . Thanks again

RE: Help Administration of eye drops in horses

Linda Filshie — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 21:37:00 GMT

I'm not an equine vet but a transpalpebral indwelling cannula is an option.

Otherwise is clicker-training an option, especially if he's a greedy cob?