Glaucoma
A painful rise in pressure inside the eye that damages the retina and optic nerve, causing irreversible sight loss if not treated fast. Acute glaucoma is a sight-saving emergency. Managed with pressure-lowering drops; protecting the second eye matters, and a blind painful eye is often kindest removed.
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Removing a Blind, Painful Eye (Enucleation): Kinder Than It Sounds
The word lands hard across the consulting table. Enucleation. Eye removal. What most owners picture is something brutal being done to a pet who's already suffering. They feel they've failed, they feel they're agreeing to a mutilation, and they're grieving the eye before it's even gone.
Glaucoma in Dogs: The Painful Emergency Owners Miss
One thing here cannot wait two minutes, so it goes first. If your dog has an eye that's suddenly turned red, cloudy or hazy, that looks bigger or more bloodshot than the other one, that they're squinting or rubbing, or that seems to have stopped seeing, ring your vet now and say you think it...
Managing Glaucoma at Home: Drops, Pressure and What to Watch
Three bottles, several times a day, one eye, then a wait, then another drop. By now the diagnosis is probably behind you, and what wears you down is the daily grind of it: the small anxious voice asking whether you got the timing right, or whether today's the day the eye flares up while you're...
Uveitis: When the Inside of the Eye Is Inflamed
What started as "a sore eye" has turned into a conversation about blood tests, and that swerve can feel baffling. Here is why it isn't.
The Fellow Eye: Protecting the Second Eye in Primary Glaucoma
One eye has gone, or is going: a glaucoma diagnosis, a sudden painful attack, perhaps an operation to remove a blind, sore eye and end the pain it was causing. And now, in among the relief and the grief, a new worry has crept in. The other eye. Is the same thing coming for it?
Spotting Eye Pain in Pets: The Signs We Overlook
The eye that worries me most on the consult table is often the one that has stopped looking sore. An owner brings a dog in because they have finally noticed a slight squint, and they apologise for wasting my time. They have not wasted my time. More often than not, that quiet, half-shut eye has...
Glaucoma in Cats: Nearly Always Secondary
Glaucoma in a cat is a different animal from glaucoma in a dog, and that difference is the whole point of this page. In dogs it's often a dramatic emergency: a red, bulging, agonising eye that comes on over hours, frequently with no underlying cause we can name. That story belongs to glaucoma in dogs....
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