Polish eye injury - 3 weeks later no improvement..help?

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theres a big aquatcs specialist a few cities over..im going to call them today and see if i can get something from them...yoda thanks for your message last night :) do you perhaps have a link to the discus forum you saw this on? i can perhaps get in touch with the poster and they can tell me where is best to buy it from :)

id just like to take a moment to thank yyou all so so much for your help so far..you're wonderful people :)
 
If your fish store doesn't sell it you can get it on Ebay. I looked already on the Belgiun ebay website. I was a moterator on the site a couple years back that is how I know you can get it in your Country.
 
can you send me a link via messages to the ebay.be page that sells it please? im not finding it (sorry am on my pphone so maybe thats why)
 
i take the pus out everyday and rinse out the 'pouch' left. i cant see any injury or anything 'foreign' in there to be causing it. must admit theres less and less pus coming out every day so maybe on the way to recovery?? i'll grab another photo shortly
 
That is so good to hear! Speaking from the human end of it, I suffer from sinus infections a lot. Sometimes it really takes a while to get the deep infection gone. I can't remember if I mentioned this or not but for myself, I use food grade lavendar oil in a face steamer. 3 drops and just hang my face over it and breathe. It works quite well for my human sinuses but that's not including eye pouches like yours has. Maybe, if you can lay hands on some, just a couple of drops sprinkled in the shavings?
 
Yoda said:
Hi spish,
Your bird has a sinus infection, but unfortunately you CANNOT use baytril on this bird. DO NOT use anything made with table salt on the eyes! The salt will eat out the eyes. That is not the same as saline solution. You can use Tylan 50 or 200 injectable. You will need a syringe and inject it just under the skin at the base of the neck and between the shoulders. Gently pull the feathers upward til you can see the skin and push the needle in til it enters the skin and inject. Do not go any farther as you do not want to get the spine. I do not know how big the bird is so I would do .5cc/ml each day for a few days and see how it's doing. Baytril is a very strong antibiotic that is banned in any poultry which eggs are eaten. If you use Baytril you will not be able to eat the eggs this bird lays nor hatch them as the baytril will remain in the chicken. If you were to eat the eggs or bird after giving it Baytril you will get very sick. Tylan 50 or 200 is better and safer to use. What I would like you to do is wash your hands and touch the puffy area around the eye, does it feel soft or hard? If it feels like a hard mass you might have to lance under the eye near the beak to remove the cyst. If it is soft then an antibiotic will work for this. Here is a link to what I did on my black shoulder peacock who got a sinus infection that wasn't caught early enough, granted his head is a lot bigger then your chickens but still the same results:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/504944/swollen-side-of-face-cyst-surgery
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I don't think table salt is any different than saline. In the hospital we use little vials marked "9% sodium chloride".
 
spish said:
I have a 1 year old polish rooster who somehow managed to injure his eye. This was a little over 3 weeks ago now. i've had him inside and have been cleaning his eye of goo 2 x per day and put antibiotics in the water to help fight infection. as advised by a local pharmacy i applied an eye ointment every night for 7 days, but this hasnt helped either. it is as if there is a swelling over his eyeball, if you move this out of the way his eye is intact underneath. everyday there is a new covering of 'cheese' puss over his eye which i have to smooth off with a piece of wet cotton wool/q-tip (warm salted water). he seems happy enough in himself, eating drinking and getting around fine. im just worried about the puss (infection?) and the effect on his eyeball.

what else can i try for him? should i carry on with the eye ointment (optim-something cant remember the whole name will have to look later when im home)? more/different antibiotics? (hes on denagard) you can see the amount of discharge that comes out by the mess round his feathers., should i perhaps cut some of his crest away for now??

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Did he go blind first?
 

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