Anya Hall & master oogway
New Member
Hello,
This is a picture of Master Oogway my tortoise, please ignore the mud around his eye, he had just had a booth/soak and then I put him back in his table and then brought him out again to take this photo. You might have to zoom in on the photo but it’s very small on his upper eyelid towards the right, it kind of looks like two little lumps of something, they come into his eye from his upper lid if you can just about see it.
He has recently had an eye infection (as diagnosed by the vet as bacterial conjunctivitis (he kept his closed all the time and then they became swollen)) which is still being treated with antibacterial eye drops. His eyes are much less swollen and pretty much back to normal. The vet just said that these little bits in his eye are build up of skin cells, but after 2 weeks with the eye drops they haven’t budged and I would’ve thought that it would’ve cleared them out.
Has anyone else’s tortoise ever had this and if so did it go away on its own or was it a more serious problem that needed further investigation? Any advice, I’m thinking I will take him back to the vets if it is still there in a week or so, it doesn’t seem to be causing any issues but it is troubling me, seeing as it definitely wasn’t there before the eye infection (I always am checking his eyes, nose, mouth and legs etc.).
Thank you in advance for any insight
This is a picture of Master Oogway my tortoise, please ignore the mud around his eye, he had just had a booth/soak and then I put him back in his table and then brought him out again to take this photo. You might have to zoom in on the photo but it’s very small on his upper eyelid towards the right, it kind of looks like two little lumps of something, they come into his eye from his upper lid if you can just about see it.
He has recently had an eye infection (as diagnosed by the vet as bacterial conjunctivitis (he kept his closed all the time and then they became swollen)) which is still being treated with antibacterial eye drops. His eyes are much less swollen and pretty much back to normal. The vet just said that these little bits in his eye are build up of skin cells, but after 2 weeks with the eye drops they haven’t budged and I would’ve thought that it would’ve cleared them out.
Has anyone else’s tortoise ever had this and if so did it go away on its own or was it a more serious problem that needed further investigation? Any advice, I’m thinking I will take him back to the vets if it is still there in a week or so, it doesn’t seem to be causing any issues but it is troubling me, seeing as it definitely wasn’t there before the eye infection (I always am checking his eyes, nose, mouth and legs etc.).
Thank you in advance for any insight