Green Eye Goop

Sully

Sully

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So as you know Sully had cherry eye surgery. He has had alot of green discharge.. and it is not going away. The surgeon said it should not be green, and she has given me three different antibiotic eye ointments and drops but none of them are making the green goop go away. We are using two right now, three times a day and still no improvement. He has his check up on Tuesday, when he is supposed to get the OK to remove the cone.. they basically said well we gave you three different kinds already and if none are working then we will have to take a look at it when he comes in on Tuesday. I hope this isn't affecting the healing and his cone can still come off :( Has anyone encountered this before when it won't go away? Any thoughts or suggestions I can make to the Vet on his check up?? He was already on ten days of cephalexin as well and that didn't seem to help anything either. thanks!
 
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Angela

Angela

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Maybe the vet should take a culture of the discharge, maybe the current antibiotic ointment is resistant to the infection??
 
cedarvalleynewfoundlands

cedarvalleynewfoundlands

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Angela said:
Maybe the vet should take a culture of the discharge, maybe the current antibiotic ointment is resistant to the infection??
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Thats what I would suggest too. Not sure about in canine medicine, but in human medicine going through 3 eye ointment antibiotics, plus a round of cephalexin would definitely raise concerns about a resistant infection. The one we worry about most is MRSA, which dogs can also get.
 
Lori

Lori

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My mom's dog currently has MRSA and it is in his eye socket. He had the eye removed about a month or two ago when suddenly it swelled up. She took him in and they drained it and did a culture. Once it came back as MRSA they changed him to Doxycycline right away.
 
NessaM

NessaM

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Hoping the culture will reveal the culprit! Sometimes if topicals aren't working they switch to an oral dose, also.
 
Sully

Sully

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eek I'm worried now if it could be that bad!:( I will definitely ask for a culture to be done. I wish I could bump up the appt. but being as its an Opthamologist he is seeing they are always booked solid and only in a couple days a week. How do they do the culture? Should I save some of his goop and bring it in case there isn't any there when I take him in or they do it by just getting some wetness from his eye?
 
chumleysma

chumleysma

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I used to do lab work for a vet who'd been practicing for many decades. Sometimes she would draw blood on a dog (or cat) I would assume with a particularly bad eye infection. She would have me spin the red top tube down to draw off the serum and transfer to another sterile red top tube. She would give this to the client to put several drops of serum into the affected eye per day up to 5 days. Sometimes culture and sensitivities were ordered as well, sometimes not. When I told her I was not familiar with this procedure, she told me the "old time" large animal vets used to slit the eyelid of a cow with an eye infection and allow the blood to seep into the eye. Apparently, they saw improvement. The theory behind it is the antibodies needed to fight infection are moved quicker and in higher concentration to the affected area. From this method, centrifugation developed. Since antibodies are found in the serum, not the red blood cells, she was basically harvesting them and using the dog's own immune system to help fight the infection. Also, the owner had to be instructed to transfer aseptically and keep the serum refrigerated. I suppose it could be an aide to an antibiotic chosen from a sensitivity.
 
Sully

Sully

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Hey guys...
I just felt under Sully's tummy and it was lumpy and crusty as I noticed him trying to scratch there lately. Right around his man bits. I laid him down and took a look - its nasty. There are some peeling black (perhaps dried blood?) lumps, and a bunch of crusty brown peeling skin. He has round peeling circles and red irritated looking skin all in that area. It looks like a staph infection. I looked the rest of him over and it seems to be pretty much just down there, he has a patch or two at the base of his tail of very dry flakey skin which he had last time he had staph. Except last time he did not have staph as bad as this on his tummy area - it is really gross and smelt awful. I am just wondering WHERE and HOW did he get this staph infection?? I mean its the middle of Winter and he has been clear of it for months since he had it in the Summer. Could he have been infected from the surgery?? I hope its not the MRSA kind... if he has staph sores on his belly is this more likely that it is the MRSA and its affecting his skin AND eye? Im not really sure how MRSA works other than its the resistant staph. I'm only seeing the Ophthalmologist tomorrow for the re check so now I might have to make an appointment with his regular Vet as I'm not sure if they can diagnose/check out his skin problem as well. I'll have to call when they open tomorrow. Poor guy, and I'm getting frustrated as it seems it is just one thing after the other!!! He is going to have a horrible immune system since he has had to be on antibiotics so often and he's only just over one :(
 
Sully

Sully

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:( I'm just getting so frustrated. I feel so bad for him. Its been one thing after the other since he has come home. Battle of the soft poops and multiple tests to try to solve it, eye infections, ear infections, skin staph infection, cherry eye, he wasn't eating for awhile and now more eye and staph infection :( Its a vicious cycle.. he keeps needing antibiotics to cure his infections but the antibiotics are killing his immune so he will just keep getting more infected... ugh!
 
J

JackandKelly

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Maybe he has an allergy to something in his diet? Many of the things you have listed that have happened to him can be tied to allergies. I really do not have experience with this so can't offer advice, but am going to watch this thread and see what others say.
 
Sully

Sully

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I know I had thought about allergies before when we were going through his poop issues when he was little, but he is eating a grain free fish based food so I'm not sure what he could be allergic too. He has been good the past few months since his last staph infection cleared up in the Summer. August - December was the first stretch we had with no concerns until his cherry eye popped out and he had this surgery..
 
J

JackandKelly

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Lola is only sensitive to fish. After we stopped giving her a fish based food and cut the Jack Mackeral out of her diet..no more ear infections and before they were chronic.
 
Sully

Sully

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hmmmmm. Well he was having problems on chicken based food, we switched him to fish and his poops went nice and firm. He has only had two ear infections.. one when he was really little and on the old food (11 weeks) and the other was a ear yeast infection after he was on 8 weeks of antibiotics for his staph in the summer.
 
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