How to clean your dog’s tear ducts

Cleaning the eyes and the hair under the eyes every day is the most effective way to control contamination. The contaminated hair should be cut off. After cutting off the hair, clean the area with water or lotion every day to prevent further contamination. These drops should only be used on soiled hair and not on the eyes.
The care method is to use a 2% boric acid cotton ball (cold boiled water can also be used) to gently wipe it from the inner corner of the eye outward. Do not wipe back and forth on the eye. One cotton ball is not enough, so you can change it to another until the eye is scrubbed clean. until. After scrubbing, drop special eye drops into the dog's eyes to eliminate inflammation.

The importance of cleaning the dog’s tear glands

Some dogs with large eyeballs and large amounts of lacrimal gland secretion often shed a large amount of tears from their eyes, causing the coat under the eyes to change color, such as Pekingese Dogs, Chihuahuas, Shih Tzus, Poodles, etc., so check your dog’s eyes frequently. When a dog suffers from certain infectious diseases (such as canine distemper), especially eye diseases, it often causes redness and swelling of the eyelids, and a large amount of mucus or purulent secretions accumulate in the corners of the eyes. At this time, the eyes must be treated and cared for carefully.

Dogs with inverted eyelashes need surgery

Some dogs, such as Shar-Pei, often suffer from excessive wrinkles on their heads. The inverted eyelashes can irritate the eyeballs and cause blurred vision, conjunctival inflammation, and corneal turbidity in dogs. In this case, a veterinarian should be asked to perform surgery to remove part of the eyelids (similar to double eyelid surgery in humans) surgery), but if the surgery is unsuccessful, the eyelids will not be able to cover the orbits, causing the eyeballs to be exposed.