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#dog #dogs #doghealth #pethealth — Well, looks like when I woke up yesterday morning, my boy Chester had Cherry eye again in the same eye as before.  My original post with a photo I took showing him with his Cherry eye condition is still there if you haven’t seen Cherry eye before.

I still had eye ointment left over from the last time.  I gave him a dosage that very morning.  By lunchtime, the Cherry eye was still there so I applied another application after lunch.  After some work at home, we took a nap in the afternoon and when we woke up about 4 pm, Chester’s Cherry eye had regressed fully.

So the eye ointment once again was quite effective which suggests that maybe my dog’s Cherry eye was a result of some allergic reaction to who knows what?  The eye ointment has an anti-inflammatory agent that probably shrunk the Cherry eye enough for it to regress back under the eye lid.

I will probably expect these Cherry eye incidents to occur again with Chester so I should probably get a supply of that eye ointment on hand at home.

The vet is puzzled by Chester’s case because he doesn’t know what is setting off the Cherry eye on my dog.  He said that Cherry eye usually occurs more in younger dogs (my Chester is five years old).  And he adds that in most cases, Cherry eye does not regress as it tends to stay out which in turn requires surgery to correct it.

Well, as long as we have an effective treatment in the form of the eye ointment, than we can at least avert eye surgery indefinitely for Chester’s weird bouts of Cherry eye.

#dog #dogs #doghealth  —  Well, we are still using the eye ointment on my dog Chester and certainly enjoying the fact that he has no cherry eye now.  It’s so nice to see his beautiful eyes in their real glory again!

He will still be on the ointment each day but for only one single dose at night for another week before we have a follow up appointment at the vet.

In case if some of you are still unclear about what cherry eye looks like again, here are some photos of other dogs with cherry eye.  It’s not a pleasant looking condition but is not painful for them fortunately.  However, they do have to have this condition corrected or else their eyes will get dry.

photo credit: spacemanor
photo credit: Chris-Gonzales90

You will notice that on one of the eyes in each of the dogs above, there is a red protrusion on the inside corner of the eye.  This is the gland that is responsible for about 1/3 of the eye’s tear production.  If this gland dries out after prolonged exposure like this, the dog will lose this 1/3 of tear production and the eye will get dry.  This will require eye drops permanently.

In most cases of cherry eye, surgery is required to correct it.  The vets will stitch this gland back underneath the eyelid.  In our case, the eye ointment worked to regress the cherry eye on Chester so surgery was averted.