Is this infection? scar tissue?? healing??? Skin/eye HELP!

[mlheran]

Fifi has developed something strange around her injured eye. The past two days it has started to look very swollen and yellow -it doesn't seem to be on the skin (like a growth), but the skin itself. The eye appears fine -no discharge or damage- it's just the skin around it. Most of the original scab is gone, just the bit at the corner of her eye remains.

I've been applying a topical antibiotic since she returned, so I don't know if this is because or in spite of that.

Any help is appreciated as this is my first injured bird and I'm not sure what I'm dealing with, thank you!

Her good side (under a red light, so the colors are a bit off):

And the bad side (also under a red light, and the flash and the ointment combine to make it look worse than it is):

What is this?! She's totally normal otherwise (aside from the broken wing, of course) and eating and pooping just fine.

 

[mlheran]

Nobody's seen anything like this?

 

[speckledhen]

I'm sorry, I haven't. Could be infected, but I've not seen infection look exactly like that before. Sorry I can't be more help.

 

[SpottedCrow]

It almost looks like a sty...

 

[dlhunicorn]

this is infection material (abscessed) from the injury... clean wel keep moist and remove (abscess material is not reabsorbed back in birds as it is with mammals)

 

[mlheran]

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How do I remove the abscessed material? There are no open sores or anything draining, it's just swollen beneath the skin.

I will definitely keep a watch on it and keep up with the antibiotic ointment. Thank you!

 

[dlhunicorn]

well I can see the scabs... the cheesy looking stuff is from that I am surmising and not from a respiratory condition? keep it most and gently remove any material that "oozes" out.

 

[mlheran]

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Nope, no respiratory problems/drainage/issues at all. It's just swelling and yellow skin around the eye. When I wiped it clean a minute ago to reapply the ointment I think there might have been some clearish-whitish fluid that drained from somewhere (hard to see as she was struggling and it was a white cloth). But I will definitely keep it clean, moist, and gently remove any matter that appears. Thank you again!!