Pink eye and white dot

We have to heifers that are in the same pen that have pink eye. Their eyes are running and on both heifers on their right eye they both have a white spot. We have been putting penicillin in their eye for a day know. What is the best way to treat it and what does that white spot in the eye mean?

My best luck treating pink eye has been injections of long acting oxytetracycline combined with two things, take a mastitis infusion and squirt it in the infected eye, Pull the eyelid up and try to get as much under the lid as you can and then cover the eye with a patch. You can buy round plastic spheres for this purpose that glue on with tag cement they work very well and if applied properly will stay on for a couple of weeks and fall off on their own usually with the eye healed by then. I've also seen where people have taken pieces of denim cut from old Jeans and basically done the same thing.

The eye patch is the key after the drugs.  Treat them, cover it and forget it for a week or two.

The white spot is scar tissue.

the white spot is probably initially corneal edema and corneal ulcer... if treated early it will resolve ... agree with antibiotic likely patching... Rod sews the eyelid closed and that works if you are man enough and know how... he says it is difficult to get the patches to stick because of the wetness

The calves are in the barn and under fans so the flys don't bother thme much. I just need to find out what to use to get this resolved. We have a show in two weeks.


Zak

We get a medicated pinkeye patch and just duct tape it on to their head, never had problems with it falling off.

My dad says if you do nothing they will get over it in about 14 days. You can doctor it, and they will be better in 2 weeks.  (lol)

rf21970 said:

My dad says if you do nothing they will get over it in about 14 days. You can doctor it, and they will be better in 2 weeks.  (lol)

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If you do nothing, it can be devastating. You can have blind calves and if too many of a group show severe damage, sale prices will be less.

Leaving Pink eye untreated in my opinion is not ethical plain and simple. Its really quite easy to treat and many different Oxytet injections exist that are pleny cheap. I personally like usining a Nitrofurazone puffer and Tetradure 300. Just open up the eye and puff the NFZ on the eyeball and give them a shot. No need to cover they eye if they are under fans or close observation.

Zak,
    If you stop by our place on your way back from the fair I'll show you how we treat it. For now just keep them away from flys as much as possible

We are going to try. It really all depends on what time we gem out of there.


Zak

We ran into this in red herd in Ks,  used micotil,  yes I know it is not the safest thing for humans, but the mastitis ointment plus the patches are the best we found,  Watch for a lot of droopey ears, excessive watering of the eye,  if this occurs re vac for ibr,  have seen calves with lot of drainage from nose,  banamine plus micotil seemed to help

We have had problems weaning in August or earlier an none in the pastures , thought it was hay feeders , but my conclusion is keep the SABRE out an take care of those flys an wont have any problems ....

get them sewed up and they will clear up, the stitch will usually fall out in 2 weeks