What are the white eye signs in a tortoise?

At first, the turtle's eye is inflamed, gradually turning gray-white and swollen, the cornea and its surroundings are eroded due to inflammation, and the outside of the eye is covered by a layer of white secretion, making the turtle unable to eat, and even blind, and gradually dies.

Although the turtle has strong vitality, due to its large and thick eyelids and delicate mucous membranes in the eyes, it does not see sunlight in the winter, especially when the water quality of indoor breeding is not fresh, it often causes bacterial infection and white eye disease. Once the disease is discovered, it is often in the middle of the disease, most of which have suppurated and formed pus-like pus accumulation in the eyelids, compressing the eyeball and optic nerve and causing blindness, causing disability and affecting feeding, and in severe cases, causing death.

In the early stage of turtle white eye disease, the turtle eye is red and swollen and has inflammation, at this time, ciprofloxacin eye drops or rifampicin eye drops can be used to drop the eye twice a day, and the turtle can be placed in a dry place to rest for a few days after the medication. It can also be used to bask in the sun for a few hours a day after medication, which is beneficial to eliminate inflammation. After 3 to 4 days can be **.

How can you tell if a turtle has white eye? The master turtle breeder teaches you how to identify white eye disease.

When turtle white-eye is about to recover, their activity will return to normal. And the eye can be opened, and the white membrane inside the eye will also fall off.

If white eye is severe, the area around the eyes will be red, swollen and inflamed. When their white eye disease is quickly cured, the redness and inflammation will also be reduced.

White-eye disease mainly occurs in the spring, when the turtle suffers from white-eye, the keeper needs to give them ** immediately to avoid affecting their health.

1. Dry raising: After the turtles suffer from white eye disease, the keeper needs to take them out for dry raising to avoid water quality polluting their eyes again. However, they need to be soaked every few hours to avoid dehydration.

2. Drip into eye drops: Rinse their eyes with chloramphenicol eye drops, ofloxacin eye drops, etc., which can disinfect their eyes and relieve inflammation around the eyes.

3. Apply ointment: Finally, apply erythromycin or chlortetracycline eye ointment to them, and put them in a dry environment, let them completely absorb the drug, and then put it back in water.

After a turtle has white eye disease, its eyes will be red and swollen, hyperemia, corneal and nasal mucosal erosion, and white discharge from the outer sphere of the eye. If you want to ** white eye disease, you can use special eye drops into the turtle's eyes and wipe around the eyes, which can generally recover in about a week.

Many people who keep turtles should want to know how to tell if a turtle has white eye. When a turtle suffers from white eye, its eyes will be red, swollen, bloody, and eroded at the corners of the eyes or the membranes and nasal mucosa, and the outer balls of the eyes will be covered by white discharge.

During this period of illness, turtles will show sluggishness, closed eyes, loss of appetite, and even more severe will stop eating and eventually die. The main cause of white eye disease in turtles is pollution or alkalinization of water quality.

If you want to ** white eye disease, you can buy special eye drops, drop a little in the turtle's eyes, and wipe the eye drops with a cotton swab around the eyes, and then increase the water temperature to about 30, once a day, generally the turtle can recover in about a week.