Bulging eye :S

[stephK]

k i was just taking sonic (aka dude) out of his cage to let him roam around for awile and i noticed that his one eye looks like it was bulging and bluer than his other one..this occured just since last night tho casue i check him out before i put him back in the cage! ive only had him for 3 months and i dont know alot about hedgehog health..like ive read up but never seen anything on bulging eyes! Im in college all day tommorow and cant bring him into the vet! is this fatal or what could it be from? any suggestions. Help! :S

[Raindog]

There is a thread in hedgehog health and hygine on bulging eye problems

http://www.chins-n-quills.com/forums/showthread.php?t=132133

There are pictures in there, does it look like that?

[stephK]

uhmm sonics eye isnt nearly as red and swollen..its more just protruding with the eyeball actually looking bluish. im going to bring him into town tomorow to talk to one of my instructors who is a vet and see what she recommends i do! hopefully she will know something!

[Chinmama]

I would think he would need to get in to a vet asap for a look. The longer you wait, the greater the odds he could lose the eye. I would think he would need something for pain/swelling and maybe some drops to help with irritation and pain.

[Nancy]

If his eyeball is looking bluish it is because it has either developed a cataract, or is dieing because he isn't blinking.

[stephK]

thanx! i actually brought him into my school for my instructor to look at and she thinks that he may have bumped it on something and just has edema or fluid in his eye..hes on drops and soo far nothings realy happening but at least its not getting worse!

[MySquiggiePoo]

Hi. So I had a hedgehog
(Milton) whenn I was like 12. He scrathed his eye on a log we got him. And his eye did the same thing. My mother thought I was being a hypocondriact when I kept telling her his eye looked wierd and after like 3 days she finally realized there was something wrong. We took him in and he had to have eye removed becaused it was infected..... about 6 months later he died. The vet thought it was because the infecrion had spread into his body and was never fully taken care of. So you shoukd really take him to se a vet. If we had done I when we first noticed it he may have kept his eye and his life.. :(

[MySquiggiePoo]

Hi. So I had a hedgehog
(Milton) whenn I was like 12. He scrathed his eye on a log we got him. And his eye did the same thing. My mother thought I was being a hypocondriact when I kept telling her his eye looked wierd and after like 3 days she finally realized there was something wrong. We took him in and he had to have eye removed becaused it was infected..... about 6 months later he died. The vet thought it was because the infecrion had spread into his body and was never fully taken care of. So you shoukd really take him to se a vet. If we had done I when we first noticed it he may have kept his eye and his life.. :(



so i posted that from my phone and dont know why it had the angy flame face, it was supposed to just have the sad face. just worried about the spikey