Pls help!!! What happened to my rabbit's eye?

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- 12/25/2016 at 8:50 PM
  bunnydrop
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  I found this last Saturday, then I immediately took my rabbit to a vet, but the vet gave me no answer yet for he need to run a test on it until the next weekend(rushing to an airport for business). But I feel so nervous!
  
  My rabbit is 11 months old, and weight 1.7 KG. She might be a Japanese Harlequin lop according a friend in the forum.
  
  Has anyone ever met this before? Is this curable?
- 12/25/2016 at 9:24 PM
  tobyluv
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  I’m not sure what that is. Here is the page on Medirabbit that deals with diseases of the eye. There are several links with pictures. Maybe some of the photos and information will be helpful to you. I hope that your rabbit will be okay.
  
  http://www.medirabbit.com/EN/Eye_diseases/Eye_diseases_main.htm
- 12/25/2016 at 10:34 PM
  Mari and Lilo bunny
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  I have never seen that before. You should probably take her to the vet right away. Does this bother her, or affect her in any way? If it does then it’s really really important you get a professional opinion! Good luck! Hope everything turns out fine..
- 12/25/2016 at 10:43 PM
  bunzmcfunz
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  It almost looks like a fat deposit from the photo. Hopefully the results will show something. My rabbit has a white spot on her eye that appeared once she was older as well, turned out she is EC positive. So, there is a possibility it’s the EC parasite. Before you panic, they can lay dormant for most or even all of a rabbit’s life. If it is EC in my opinion it is good to treat because it can be nasty if it decides not to be dormant :/
- 12/27/2016 at 3:30 AM
  bunnydrop
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  thx to everyone!
  
  Today I took my bunn to another vet, he only looked at my bunn’s eye with a flashlight of his cellphone, then told me that my bunn has caught uveitis long ago and now I have missed the best intervention time, and there ain’t no need to apply therapy any more, for its eye will neither recover nor continue to develop.
  
  Seems this is the best conclusion, but will take my bunn to the previous vet this weekend (who doubt it is caused by tumor), just to make sure of it.
- 12/27/2016 at 8:09 PM
  jerseygirl
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  Uveitis not something that can be caught. It can be due to infection like E.cuniculi or bacterial infection or from injury to the eye.
  I think it is a good idea to revisit with the previous vet as you have planned.
  
  You may need to give some antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drops for the eye. Steriod drops are often prescribed for the eye. General steriodal medications are not great for rabbits, but for the eye they are considered safe.
- 12/27/2016 at 8:57 PM
  LBJ10
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  I agree. It could be due to EC or another infection. It’s best to have it examined more thoroughly.
- 12/27/2016 at 10:06 PM
  bunnydrop
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  Thank u so much!
  
  I will respect my vet’s opinion, and I also planned to discuss your advice with him this weekend, if possible.
  
  Let’s suppose EC has developed into a bunn’s eye, or brain, is it still curable? And what madicine, or treatment can be taken?
- 12/27/2016 at 11:28 PM
  LBJ10
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  Considering that she isn’t displaying more serious symptoms like seizures or paralysis, I would think her condition is still very much treatable. That is, if this is indeed EC. But I have heard that uveitis and cataracts are more common in younger bunnies with EC, so it is at the top of my “suspects” list. Ask your regular vet about treating for EC, even if they can’t do a test (EC is notorious for producing false negatives anyway) Treatment would involve using an antiparasitic/de-wormer like fenbendazole.
- 12/29/2016 at 1:47 AM
  bunnydrop
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  thank you so muchLBJ10 and to everyone!
- 12/29/2016 at 8:45 PM
  Nev
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  Our Daisy had a cornea scratch and was sent home with an antibiotic. At her first follow up visit, she had a white spot in her eye exactly like that. The vet said it was a pocket of pus forming inside her eye, she needed immediate hospitalization to administer serious antibiotics and observation or else the infection could get worse and there was a chance her eyeball could pop. It may not be the same thing as your bun, but we’re a little traumatized over everything we have seen and been through with Daisy’s eye, I’d take your bun to a knowledgeable vet ASAP.
  
  Our Daisy did get a little better after hospitalization, but suddenly formed an abscess behind the same eye, her eye was removed. She’s doing wonderful now, fully recovered, about 6 weeks ago was the surgery.
- 01/07/2017 at 11:25 PM
  bunnydrop
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  Thank you Daisy, it’s horrible！Hope the same thing won’t happen to my bunn. For my location is in Beijing and according to several vets there ain’t no place to run such tests to determine EC infection.
  
  Last weekend I took my bunn to a vet for B-mode ultrasound test on her eye (to exclude tumor cause) but the result didn’t give us much information we need, seems such test method ain’t suitable for bunn’s eye ! (But why didn’t they tell me earlier…? I can only suspect they want to charge me some money)
  
  Then I took it to another vet to run a blood test(no relative EC detection technic,too) to evaluate several general items , the result seems normal. If necessary I would paste the test report in the topic later.
  
  According to the vet, unlike American pet rabbit are mostly kept outdoors, in China most pet rabbits are kept indoors, so there’s relatively lower chance to get such disease. Besides, EC infection is quite possible to be accompanied with other syndromes, and as my bunn seems all well with only one syndrome(spot in one eye), the only advice is to keep on give my bunn described eye drop for evaluation 3 weeks later.
  
  The eyedrops he described are:
  - Diclofenac Sodium Eye Drops
  - Tobramycin and Dexamethasone Eye Drops
  And here’s my question:
  1. Is there any other syndrome on your bunn? And what is it?
  2. How long did the disease take to develop from the first infection to second infection?
  Thank you!
- 01/08/2017 at 12:07 AM
  LBJ10
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  Indoor-only rabbits have EC all the time. Babies will get it from their mothers and it will lie dormant, sometimes for years.
  
  Tests for EC (i.e. a titer) are notorious for producing false negatives anyway, so I wouldn’t worry about testing for it. Treating for it just in case is probably not a bad idea though. Treatment is relatively inexpensive. If it helps, great. If it doesn’t, no harm done. Typically, a dewormer like fenbendazole is used.
  
  As for the antibiotic and NSAID eye drops, I don’t think that’s a bad idea either. Did the vet look at the cornea to see if there was any evidence of damage? I would imagine you would have noticed if your bun scratched her eye.
- 01/08/2017 at 2:17 AM
  bunnydrop
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  Hi JBK10, as for me I don’t care much about differences between outdoor and indoor, as a dentist I suspect my working environment itself can lead to many possibilities, due to skin, clothes and shoes contamination. That’s why I questioned Daisy, I put my concern on relative complications.
  
  Can you give me some detailed description ? I’m not sure how to judge cornea damage. One thing for sure is that my bunn doesn’t scratch her eyes.
  
  The vet mentioned he can describe fenbendazole if i want, but suggest better not use it only when necessary, for such medicine can also eliminate intestinal bacteria, and might cause a series of other problems, which can also lead to quick death.
- 01/08/2017 at 6:23 PM
  LBJ10
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  About the fenbendazole… I have never heard of it eliminating gut bacteria. SOME anti-parasitics have been shown to cause radiation poisoning-like symptoms in small animals. But this is not the case with fenbendazole. Now, I’m not a vet or anything, but I do know that tons of people give it to their bunnies to treat EC and that it can be safely given for 28 days, which is the standard protocol for that. Someone else may want to chime in about this, but when EC is suspected many vets will just go ahead and treat on a “just in case” basis because if it isn’t EC then there is no harm done.
  
  As for a scratch to the cornea, you would have likely noticed your bunny holding her eye shut and a lot of watering. She would be reluctant to open her eye, etc. And the pain/discomfort would last for days. Generally people take their bunny to the vet when they notice something like this. The vet can put dye in the eye and damage to the cornea will be illuminated. The vet then prescribes some drops or ointment for the eye to promote healing, prevent infection, and control pain. Scratching with the foot isn’t the only way this could happen. Young, active bunnies often run into objects while playing and “poke their eye out”.
  
  Again, I’m not a vet. Obviously, I’m not going to diagnose your bunny with anything. I just worry about EC when I see this and read what you’re describing. EC often manifests itself in young bunnies as a uveitis in the eye. This is because EC is passed from mom to baby and it often infect the baby’s eyes while they are still in the womb. Then it manifests itself later on down the road and you often see something like this. There may or may not be other obvious symptoms present.
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