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 Grace Under Fire
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Location: In the middle of nowhere North Dakota | hay yall, i was just wondering if any of you would know why my mare has runny eyes, i want just some ideas. i know this isnt any info to go on, but i was just wondering what might cause it.and then i was told if you use just regular human saline solution it will help clean them out, but i dont know if i want to do that because horses are so sensitive to certain chemicals. what would you all do?hollie grace and saddie |
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| I have used regular human eye solution to clean my horses eyes when we were in Oklahoma and it was really windy. |
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Location: Texas hill country | Do they just run in the inside corner? If so it could be her tear duct is pluged. If you look inside her nose there is a hole it's usually where the skin starts to chang color. Your vet can run SS through it and it shoots out through the conner of her eye. It's kind of cool to see. |
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Grace Under Fire
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Location: In the middle of nowhere North Dakota | Originally written by ALCowgirl on 2004-04-01 1:53 PM
I have used regular human eye solution to clean my horses eyes when we were in Oklahoma and it was really windy. were your horses eyes really runny before u used the saline solution? |
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 Sexy Bee Yacht
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Location: WA | It depends on where and the color of the discharge, etc. Last summer our gelding got a runny eye, we put some teramycin (sp) on it, and it cleared right up in a few days! But it depends on your circumstance. |
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| yeah and he had dirt all in his poor eyes. Then my old old old break away horses eyes matted up and we used the solution to clean in out. |
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Grace Under Fire
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Location: In the middle of nowhere North Dakota | you know how we wake up in hte morning and there is eye boogers (that sounds funny haha) in the corner of our eyes and its just kinda like creamish white or something like that. thats what color it is. her eyes arent foggy or anything, they dont seem to be sore, so maybe there is something in htem. im not sure. anymore info would be helpful. thankshollie grace |
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Grace Under Fire
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Location: In the middle of nowhere North Dakota | Originally written by ALCowgirl on 2004-04-01 2:04 PM
yeah and he had dirt all in his poor eyes. Then my old old old break away horses eyes matted up and we used the solution to clean in out. i think im gonna try ss, i hope it helps.'hollie grace |
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Location: Somewhere but really not Anywhere | Actually, I had a horse that had a very small scratch on his eye (nothing serious), but went by my vet and he gave me a bottle ($7.00) of medicine for his eye and it cleared right up, and then the other time his tear duck (sp?) was plugged up....Good Luck! |
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Official Fence Jocky
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Location: I'm in Whiskeyland | Sounds like tear ducts clogged. |
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Location: On our hill top in Iowa | My young gelding did this in one eye. It was creamy looking as well. His would run so bad that he would have a trail of it down his face. Took him to the vet and he had a clogged tear duct and the flushed it. Their tear ducts drain into their nose so you shouldn't have any running out of their eye. They also gave me a cream to put in his eye for a while to help with any irritation from flushing the tear duct. Good luck. |
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