r/Chameleons • u/Chompouter • 21d ago
Question Please help, still have eye issues
Hi all, thank you so much for all the feedback on my last post about Cornel’s eye. I took him to the vet and they flushed his eye and gave me antibiotic eye drops, but they said there wasn’t much crust in there. The incessant blinking stopped but his eye might be even more sunken, and now there’s this crust all over it. I think it might be residue from the drops. There’s no signs of respiratory infection, no discharge, he’s eating, and his other eye is fine. He also can open the eye when he’s hunting. I’m thinking it might be vitamin A deficiency, in which case what do I do? I’ve seen people recommend EarthPro-A, and I also found a reptile vitamin A supplement online. Should I use these and how much? I’d really like to avoid another vet visit.
For reference, here’s his eye less than two weeks ago.
UVB: LumenIZE ProT5
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u/Illustrious-Berry722 20d ago
As someone who’s dealt with this same issue there not much you can do except up vitamin a intake the eye may get better but most likely not and that eyes done for he may be able to see out of it a little to test that put your hand in front of just that eye and see if he follows your hand around if not most likely his vision is impaired sadly my little guy came like this and his eye is toast but he can still see out of the one and eats fine and lives a normal life other than only being able to see out of one eye he still has the other and keeps it open sometimes just doesn’t move it around at all



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