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Anja
04-15-2017, 05:51 AM
Hello everyone:w00t
I hope someone can help

I have three baby red european squirrels. Now they're about 5 weeks old, opened their eyes last week, i had them since they we're about ten days old. Their doing good getting bigger and bigger everyday

However they all seem to have one of their eyes glued together when i wake them to feed from time to time. I usually just pat them with a wet q-tip and then they open it.
Yesterday i noticed one of the boys kept scratching near the itchy eye with his paws and in the morning this eye became a little bit cloudy with a tiny scratch if you look really closely and he doesn't close it simultaniusly with the other eye.

What should i do? should i give him some drops or maybe cream for eye infections??
i'm afraid he might go blind
i put a little gauze over the eye so he would't scratch it further

I will try to post some pictures

Mel1959
04-15-2017, 07:20 AM
Welcome to TSB, Anja. :Welcome.

Do you notice any crustiness around the eye? Any discharge or weeping? I had this happen to my squirrel once, but he was much older. It resolved itself without any intervention on my part.

Your guys might have an eye infection, especially considering the itchiness. Do you have any antibiotic ointment or drops made specifically for the eye? Terramycin is one that comes to mind.

I hope others that may have experienced this will chime in.