Graeca with problem

[lacard]

Could someone help? Here is the tortoise, there is no infection or pus, the vet has already checked. Clotrymazole 1% hasn't worked either. What could it be?

[alley cat]

Could it be cherry eye? I have never seen it only seen pictures so not sure.

[lacard]

Thank you, have you got documentation on it by chance?

[burnt toast]

Oh dear! Can you tell us please: does this come & go? If so does it happen when he is eating?

Does the tortoise live outside?

ps You can search on here, for cherry eye there are definitely threads on it

[lacard]

Hello burnt toast: I read about it, i am not sure it is that. The tortoise lives in a big enclosure, outside. It doesn't come and go, it started on the cheek and the eye closed little by little. It doesn't seem to have spread more, it is stagnant now. She does eat and poos. She is 60+.

[Catwoman63]

My zelda gets one her eyes like that, but not swollen like that, I think in her case its the dust from the substrate in the shed, I know this because if I keep her on newspaper her eyes are ok, then again she is a very old tortoise x

[lacard]

So could it be the soil outside? The vet was talking about a possible tumor. How common is a tumor? I have never heard of it.

[CherryBrandy]

Like Bev's Zelda with Horsfields they do tend to bury and the grit, sand, soil goes in and aggravates it which can swell the eye up so it could very likely be grit in eye or equivalent, mine Horsfield's eye have never swollen that badly. soil is a bacteria which can then infect the eye but he is eating and pooping so it may not be an infection and the vet would say I would think. I just use to place a warm cotton ball soaked in saline solution or warm water on the eye which hydrated it (and flushed it as it opened) and it did go down but took a while. I thought tumours needed a (warm) blood supply oxygen. think unusual in reptiles I would have thought but not an expert.

[lacard]

She doesn't bury herself much, particularly now . And if she was to have irritations from soil, wouldn't both eyes be affected?

[CherryBrandy]

Sorry I didn't mean she is a bury er it was just an example when soil gets in the eyes of Horsfields who do bury a lot it can sometime be a common complaint. one eye can be affected only. if any foreign body gets in it will aggravate the lining of the eye - the eye lid closes to protect it, (liquid pumped in sometimes to cushion any contact). If it isn't leaking or discharging it is likely (but exceptions) aggravation in the eye, grass seed is another really common one or she has caught it on something walking along another potential.....guinea pigs eye go white if this happens , it looks awful but its protection. I think if the vet is thinking tumour he has eliminated infection. I have even use topical hayfever drops on mine or diluted them in warm water and soaked - one of the makes places a natural antibody in them.(I was told ). let us know how the poor little thing gets on.