How to Treat an Eye Infection in a Dog

Video Transcript

"Sometimes dogs get eye infections. Sometimes their eye infections are highly contagious they have gotten from other dogs and that could be from dogs from play groups or from the park or from classes and sometimes they get eye infections because they get particles of something in their eye and their eye gets irritated. If you are going over your dog regularly, doing regular grooming and your cleaning and teeth cleaning and nail caring your dog, one of the things you want to check out is your dog's eyes. You want to always keep the eye debris clean from the tearing that comes out. You will often get clumps of eye gunk, you want to make sure to keep that clean and you want to periodically look at your dog's eye and see that it is a nice healthy eye. If there is lots of redness in the eye or if there is a normal amount of tearing coming out of the eye, then you are going to want to take your dog to the vet and get medication. How do you put the medication in? You are going to take the medication and close the eye and just swipe the medication along the closed eye. It is a good idea to give a little bit of a massage here so it coats the entire eye. Some medication you might get from your vet is medication that actually has to go into an open eye. In order to do this, you might need a second person but you can also often do it yourself where you hold the dog's eye open and you drip the medication directly onto the eyeball. You are going to follow the instructions of whatever medication it is your vet gives you but it is important you notice whether your dog has an eye infection. The only really way to do that is by going over your dog weekly and knowing what their dog's eye typically looks like in a healthy state and notice when it is in an infected state. "