Popular Science | Distinguish whether a cat s eyes is sick and its symptoms.

The cat's eyes are always full of mysterious colors, which makes people fascinated by it. The mysterious eyes and lonely personality of cats once triggered legends of cats and witches in ancient Europe, which also brought great disasters to themselves. Although these beautiful and well-behaved guys know how to protect themselves, the saying "Nine Life Cat" is always popular. Even so, they face the same disease problems as other animals, such as eye disease. When cats have abnormal symptoms in their eyes, be sure to find a doctor to deal with it as soon as possible. If handled improperly, it may cause irreparable damage.

【Retinal stripping】

What a horrible name! In fact, this is indeed a very serious disease. Suppose the eye is a camera, and the retina inside the eye is like the negative of the camera, which is the location where the object is imaged. As the imaging center of the eyes, if this disease occurs and if it is not treated in time, it is likely that your cat can only live in the darkness from now on.

Causes: Retinal dissection can be caused by impact, infectious diseases, genetics or dietary imbalance.

Symptoms: It doesn't hurt or itchy, but the things you see are different from usual, twisting like twists and turns.

Medical Manual: Trauma causes retinal photoreceptor cells to degenerate, or even strip.

Tips: What I want to remind everyone here is to pay attention to your eyes and never think that this is a disease that only cats can get. Because this disease is also very likely to occur in people, especially for girls, if you have the habit of smoking, if you have to work in front of the computer every day, and if you wear contact lenses, then pay more attention to your eyes. If you find that your vision suddenly drops or the image in front of you is distorted, please go to the hospital for a check-up.

【Conjunctivitis】

The thin membrane on the white eyeball is called conjunctivitis. Conjunctivitis is a common disease. This disease often occurs in cats living in newly renovated houses and families with poor indoor hygiene.

Cause: caused by bacterial and viral infections, trauma, allergies, drug or plant irritation, garbage, dust, etc.

Symptoms: Eye discharge, constant blinking, tears, and instantly exposed. In severe cases, it can also cause conjunctiva swelling. There are symptoms of cat viral rhintracheitis, cat cold bacterial infection and other diseases.

Medical Manual: If the disease that causes conjunctivitis is more serious, treatment should be given first. Remove dirt around the eyes, prescribe some eye drops from the hospital, and follow the doctor's instructions to the cat. When you have an eye twitching tendency, use Elizabeth collar to prevent it.

Tips: If there is more than one cat's mouth at home, the small towel used by the sick cat should be separated from other cats and should be disinfected frequently.

【Keratitis】

Some friends think keratitis and conjunctivitis are the same thing, but in fact they are not. The conjunctiva is the surface layer of the white part of the eye, while the cornea is the transparent tissue at the front of the eye. Because the cornea is directly in contact with the outside world, there are many opportunities for infection.

Causes: Eyelashes, trauma, eyelid penetration or conjunctivitis can all cause corneal inflammation.

Symptoms: Eye pain, tears, turbid and white cornea (but it is different from cataracts).

Medical Manual: The general practice is to apply a warm towel on the cat's eyelids to lightly, which can promote blood circulation, and then treat it with some antibiotic ointments prescribed by a pet doctor.

Tips: Vitamin A deficiency and malnutrition often develop corneal softening.

【Tearing Disease】

You can tell that it must be a disease related to tears when you look at the name. Some cats' eyes are always wet, as if tears flow out. Tears mean a lot of tears, such as crying or eyes getting inflamed; while tears flowing refers to an abnormal phenomenon of tears.

Cause: excessive secretion of tears or blocked tear ducts.

Symptoms: The hair below the cat's eyes is dyed tea brown.

Medical Manual: Never use eye ointment or eye drops for your cat casually. Be sure to find a professional doctor to prescribe eye drops.

Tips: This eye disease may be related to symptoms such as eye allergy or respiratory infection, and it often occurs in Persia and cats with short faces, such as cats, so the owners of these cats should carefully check their eyes when they first undergo medical examinations on their cats.

【Cataracts】

When talking about this disease, we must mention the elders in cats, because cataracts usually appear on older cats. If the cat is older and has diabetes, the chance of cataracts is very high.

cause: The crystal becomes white and opaque due to congenital or acquired reasons.

Symptoms: The cat's eyes become white and opaque.

Medical Manual: The common treatment for cataracts is to undergo surgical removal of opaque parts to restore vision to cats. Only experienced doctors can perform this kind of surgery. If the surgery cannot be performed or the surgery fails, the cat's vision will gradually lose.

Tips: It is not that white mist appears in the eyes or that cataracts are caused. The spots on the surface of the lens of an elderly cat are not necessarily cataracts. They may only be caused by changes in the refractive index of the lens when they are old, and they do not affect vision.

【Glaucoma】

Many people have heard of this disease, but cats are also troubled by this disease.

Cause: The cause of glaucoma is the increase in the anterior atrial fluid between the cornea and the crystal, causing an increase in the pressure in the eye. In addition, if cats have internal bleeding or eye fluid cannot circulate due to various reasons, it can also cause glaucoma.

Symptoms: Swelling eyes, turbid corneal, etc.

Medical Manual: There are internal treatment methods for glaucoma, such as eye drops, etc., but it depends on the severity of glaucoma. If in addition to high intraocular pressure, eye infection or even pus has been caused, surgery is a faster solution..

Tips: If glaucoma is not discovered in time and causes serious damage to the eye structure, the lesion's eyeball must be removed, so you must take the cat to medical treatment at the beginning of the disease.

I have talked about several diseases, and I believe everyone can't remember them all at once. However, I would like to remind everyone that when cats have abnormal eyes, don't take it for granted and think that cats have the ability to cure diseases on their own. Although cats have strong adaptability, they still need to overcome difficulties with the help of doctors in the face of diseases. Here I would like to remind the owner of the cat that you are sick must take the medicine prescribed by the doctor when visiting the hospital. Do not be a doctor without hesitation, otherwise you will not only become a three-legged cat doctor, but will also bring you regretful results.