What to do if your dog has watery eyes: how to help your pet

06.03.2024 16:45

Perhaps the first thing you should do if you see that your dog’s eyes are watering is to stop panicking.

As a rule, tears are not a sign of a serious illness.

Most often, tearing is caused by something getting into the animal's eye. Your task is to extract something.

To do this, use washed hands to pull back the dog's eyelid and, using the edge of a damp cloth (without alcohol or other aggressive substances), remove the foreign object.

After this, you need to rinse the eye with a special lotion, which can be found in a veterinary pharmacy.

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But that's not all - even if you managed to eliminate the cause of the tearing, you still need to visit the veterinarian with your pet.

The whole point is that a foreign body can damage the transparent cornea.

You will most likely not be able to visually detect the injury; this will require a special test.

The main thing is not to miss the right moment, so that an insignificant reason does not become the cause for the development of an infection and extensive damage leading to blindness.

Previously, we talked about how to understand that your cat is obese .

Author: Elena Shimanovskaya Editor of Internet resources