What should I do if my Brazilian tortoise s eyes are red and I can t open them?

The eyes of the sick turtle are inflamed and congested, and the eyes are swollen. The cornea and nasal mucosa of the eye are eroded due to inflammation of the eye, the outside of the eyeball is covered by white secretions, and there is inflammation inside the eye. Sick turtles often rub their eyes with their forelimbs, move slowly, and no longer feed.

In severe cases, the sick turtle loses its eyesight, and eventually the turtle becomes thinner and weaker and dies. Some turtles have only one disease at the beginning of the disease, and if no action is taken, symptoms will soon develop in the other eye.

Prevention]: 1. Strengthen feeding management before and after wintering, and when you start to eat, strengthen nutrition and enhance disease resistance.

2. Disinfection of turtle raising utensils, soaking the glass tank and aquarium of turtle raising with 10% salt water for 30 minutes, and then raising turtles after soaking them with water. 3. Soaking in penicillin or potassium permanganate solution is not only a preventive measure, but also can be used as an early **. Juvenile turtles should use 20 milliliter concentration, and juvenile turtles should use 30 milliliter concentration for adult turtles, and the length of immersion time depends on the water temperature.

Soak once a day (40 minutes) for 3-5 days if necessary.

**]: 1. Feed more animal liver.

2. Disinfection. Livano; Also known as Rayver. The surgical drug is soaked into a 1% aqueous solution once a day, 40 to 60 seconds at a time. Even 3 to 8 days.

3. Soak in furacillin (or furazolidone) solution. Cone turtles use 20 mg at a concentration. Juvenile turtles use 30 mg liters of adult tortoises as young tortoises. 40 minutes at a time, once a day for 3 to 5 days.

4. Daknin eye ointment.

In addition, chloramphenicol eye drops can be very good for white eye disease.

Other diseases related to the eye.

1.Inability to open the eyelids: **: Mainly due to dry environment. **: Bathe and increase humidity.

2.Swelling of the eyelids (swollen eyelids): **: Vitamin A deficiency, or exposure to a foreign body.

**: 1) Wash the eye area with sterilized water;

2) If vitamin A deficiency is suspected, water-soluble vitamin A can be applied topically or intramuscularly once a week.

Don't worry about it, it's bad for your eyes, you put a foam in the tank and let it lie on its own and keep the water clean and heal on its own.

Wet its eyes with water, and then swim and break them open!

Buy eye ointment and apply it to him.

I think it's a serious white eye disease.

Erythromycin eye ointment plus nitrofuracillin medicated bath.

1. If the symptoms are not very serious, you can replace the water in the tank to keep the water clean, and clean the eyes with normal saline, and then apply ointment.

2. After the eyes of the Brazilian turtle are swollen, there is a phenomenon of suppuration and cannot be opened, you need to wipe its eyes with a cotton swab, and try to get the pus out, and then dry it for two days to get better.

3. During the Brazilian turtle** period, when bathing it, it is best to use clean water that has been sunburned, and often disinfect its living environment, and at the same time use eye ointment to wipe it, and you also need to supplement it with nutrients during this period.

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Symptoms**: 1. Mild to moderate infection, use chloramphenicol eye drops during the day, once an hour, and apply erythromycin eye ointment at night. Oral azithromycin.

2. For severe infection, it is recommended to use injectable antibiotics. Topical chloramphenicol eye drops and erythromycin eye ointment.

3. Soak it in strong tea and soak it overnight, the turtle's eyes can be cured, and this method sometimes fails, and sometimes it is repeated.

4. Use chloramphenicol eye drops, three times a day (according to the degree of serious illness, but not more than five times), alone, remember not to shine, in a dry and cool place.

This is turtle white eye disease. To give the Brazilian turtle **white eye disease, you need to adjust the way ** according to the specific situation. If only a few Brazilian turtles have symptoms of disease, then the cavity can be weighed into these Brazilian turtles first fished out and isolated, separately**, the original container is disinfected, some antibiotics shed eye drops can be smeared, applied 1-2 times a day, and if the symptoms are severe, penicillin needs to be injected once a day.

If most of the Brazilian turtles in the container show symptoms of disease, then the turtle can be soaked directly with antibiotics for 30-60 minutes each time. When breeding after **, it is necessary to pay attention to the prevention and control of this disease. This disease is generally caused by the poor water quality environment, which leads to the growth of many germs in the water, and then the Brazilian turtle may suffer from this disease.

Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to the cleanliness of water quality and prevent and control this disease by strengthening environmental management.

Precautions for Brazilian turtle feeding.

It is necessary to check whether there is any leakage in the breeding tank every day, and there should be no things around the breeding tank for the turtle to clamp the body, so as to prevent the turtle from escaping and being killed by the scorching sun in the open air.

In addition, the activity of the Brazilian turtle varies with the change of ambient temperature, the optimal temperature is 20 32, 11 or less hibernation, and 6 below deep hibernation. Therefore, in general, as long as the water temperature is not lower than 4, it can be safely wintered.

The above content refers to the Encyclopedia - Brazilian Turtle.

Encyclopedia - Turtle white eye disease.