Cat Eye Care Products for Healthy Vision

The eyes are only small body parts, but trouble with these organs can make your pet’s life miserable. Proper eye care is a necessity to keep your pet healthy and happy throughout its life. Through a daily home eye exam, you will learn to identify your pet’s normal eyes, as well as spot small changes before they become big problems. A few minutes daily can prevent major, expensive problems caused by diseases that are allowed to linger unnoticed.

Although every pet has slight differences in its normal anatomy, some generalizations hold true.

- Healthy eyes are bright and clear.

- Both eyes look approximately the same size and are held open.

- There is no cloudiness to block the pet’s vision.

- Both pupils are the same size and react to light.

- There should not be any tears or drainage spilling out of the eyes and onto the face.

- The lining of the eyes, called the conjunctiva, should be a pale, healthy pink, and not red or inflamed.

- There should not be debris accumulated in the corner of the eyes, and the skin and hair around the eyes should be clear and free of accumulated material.

- The third eyelid should lie flat across the lower, inner corner of the eye, and have no swellings or bumps.

Warning signs are simply a signal that something is wrong and attention is needed. Almost any eye problem can cause similar signs, so the cause of the problem cannot be determined by the signs.

Signs of an eye problem vary tremendously, and may include:

- Cloudiness

- Tearing

- Squinting

- Discharge

- Redness

- Blinking

- Swelling

- Increase in the number or size of blood vessels

- Changes in the size of the eye or pupils

- Rubbing eyes on the carpet or furniture

- Pawing at the eyes to relieve itching and irritation

- Inflamed or crusted skin around the eye

- Missing hair around the eye

Depending on the cause, eye problems may also involve the ears. In addition, chronic eye or ear problems may indicate that there is disease elsewhere in your pet’s body.

Any changes in the eyes should be reported at once to the veterinarian. Eye problems that are promptly diagnosed and rapidly treated often respond quickly to therapy. Those that are ignored or improperly treated may continue to worsen and even lead to blindness.

New eye problems should not be treated with old medications from previous eye problems or with medications from other pets, and should not be treated with over-the-counter human eye medications without the advice of the pet’s veterinarian. Your veterinarian may use special instruments and drops during the examination and prescribe special eye ointments or drops.

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