What should I do if the turtle's eyes can't be opened?

2022-08-07

Raising turtles is actually relatively simple for many pets, and it is much more worry-free than raising cats and dogs. Although easy to care for, turtles can also get sick if not cared for properly. Some turtles experience symptoms such as cracked shells, body decay and inability to open their eyes.

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What to do if the turtle can't open its eyes

A turtle's inability to open its eyes is a typical symptom of white eye disease. The disease is basically a turtle. In the case of erosion, the outside of the eyeball is covered with white secretions, and the eyes cannot be opened. Turtles suffering from white eye disease often wipe their eyes with their forelimbs, move slowly, stop eating severely, and finally die of frailty. So once this problem is discovered, it must be dealt with in time.

The best treatment for white eye disease is to keep it dry. Soak in water 3 times a day for about 20 minutes each time. If the water is warm, just add boiling water to the water if you don't have a heating rod. The water temperature should be around 28 degrees. Do a good job of keeping warm, put a cover on the top of the breeding box to keep warm, and don't forget to leave a seam to let the air out. Then apply chlortetracycline eye ointment before soaking in water, which has the effect of waterproof and anti-inflammatory. After soaking in water, remove the turtle and drop an eye drop. It is best to apply ointments and medicines to the eyes. Repeated adherence to treatment, must adhere to smear, recommended drugs: azithromycin dispersible tablets, baiduobang ointment and levofloxacin eye drops. It takes a long time to heal a turtle, so please be patient.

However, white eye disease prevention is better than cure. It is best to keep water for turtles, why should we keep water? Because tap water contains chlorine. Chlorine gas is used for disinfection and is basically harmless to the human body, but the chloric acid and hypochlorous acid in the water can easily stimulate the turtle's body and infect bacteria, so after a period of time, it is best to expose it to the sun, so that the chlorine in it Can be completely evaporated.

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How to treat white eye disease in turtles

1. Dry cultivation, soak in cold water twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening; once 20 minutes is enough. (Because the pathogenic bacteria of the disease are anaerobic bacteria, which are easy to spread and spread in humid environment or water, dry culture method is used for treatment.)

2. When soaking in water, try to use the smallest container, slightly larger than the turtle. The water level is slightly higher than the turtle's back.

3. Use chloramphenicol eye drops several times a day. It doesn't matter if you don't open your eyes, just tap a few times directly on your eyelids. (Never try to remove the albuginea manually, especially for beginners, it is easy to hurt the eyeball.)

4. Apply chlortetracycline eye ointment (or erythromycin) to the eyes every night before going to bed. Alternate chlortetracycline and erythromycin.

5. Thoroughly disinfect the turtle tank and other breeding environments with disinfectants such as povidone iodine, and disinfect in the sun!

6. When the weather is cold, hypothermia will hinder recovery, and it is necessary to use heating equipment to raise the temperature to about 26 degrees to recover.

7. The treatment course of this disease is long, please wait patiently for more than half a month to repeat the treatment. The drug must be stopped until it is cured, otherwise it is easy to relapse!

8. Severe cases can be treated by injection, and the drugs can be gentamicin, cefradine, azithromycin, etc.