Cleaning our dog’s eyes is necessary for good eye health. Therefore, we will have to do it daily. Also, it won’t take us more than a few minutes. There are no excuses!
First of all, we will have to learn to differentiate the legañas that a dog can present. This is important because if they are green, they will be indicative that the animal may be suffering from an ocular pathology and we will have to take it to the veterinary consultation. Also if it presents a lot of quantity and there are even times in which it winks.
If our furry simply has legacies in the morning, as it happens to us when we wake up, that is, they are sediments of tears at night, we can remove them and they will not be worrisome. How to do it? The veterinarian Ana Anglada, from the Anaga Veterinary Center, tells us about it.
To clean the dog’s eyes we will need physiological saline (which we will find in any pharmacy) and a gauze. There are several ways to clean the eyes: we can put drops of serum directly into the eye so that the liquid itself carries away the dirt and we remove the gunk with the gauze or if the gum is very attached to the hair that surrounds the eye, we can soak the serum with serum or gauze with serum so as not to pull, pull the hair and harm it. There are also special eye cleaners for dogs.
A very useful tip to be able to do almost everything to the dog is to be patient , act gently and without pressure and make it a game with rewards (sweets) for the animal.
Eye cleaning, in addition to being necessary for the animal’s health, serves as a way to monitor its eyesight and make sure there is any pathology that the veterinarian should treat. In this sense, if we observe that the dog has a red conjunctiva or a color other than the usual one (pink), we will have to take it to the clinic so that an eye drop is prescribed.
