Buddha's favourites have a shih-tzu playful sunshiny disposition. Therefore inexperienced owners of puppies worry when they see that their pet cries. Dogs do not express emotion tears, for this purpose they have a tail. Then why at a shih-tzu eyes water?
It is not necessary to worry
Periodic colourless allocations are a natural protection of an organ of vision. When tears not too intensive, do not flow down on cheeks and do not disturb a dog, and the owner does not need to worry.
If the lachrymation is observed in the period of a techka or after the delivery at knots and also during a teething at puppies - it will pass soon. Care of the owner will help to endure to a doggie this difficult period.
Wrong leaving or allergy
Lachrymation one or can cause at once several reasons:
- sweet, flour, fat in a diet;
- dust;
- chemicals;
- smoke of a cigarette or fire.
Do houses damp cleaning, air the room. Apply bezallergenny cleaners. Regularly erase and you boil dog diapers, laying. You do not smoke, not a raspryskivayta near a doggie spirits, a deodorant, aerosol. At observance of all these rules shortly symptoms of fluidity of an eye will pass.
If the lachrymation is caused by an allergy, eliminate its source from food or the pet's environment. Incorrectly picked up forage - the most probable cause. Replace that with which you feed, with another, better hypoallergenic. The allergy to shampoo, pollen is possible, in this case change detergent or the place of walks. After allergen elimination the dacryagogue will stop within three weeks.
The irritating hairs
The small lachrymation is caused by incorrectly growing eyelashes, touching an eyeball cover. Usually grown up doggie of an eyelash ceases to be irritated as the muzzle is extended.
Long wool and bang, getting into eyes, cause inconveniences. That wool remained soft, clean it is regularly necessary to bathe, comb the pet, to carry out a grooming. The bang is recommended to be pinned up or cut.
The grown eyelash can disturb a puppy, in that case it is necessary to address to veterinary clinic. The doctor will remove a hair under local anesthesia. The eyelash will grow again in 2-4 weeks, but depilation will allow to estimate effect which will bring to a dog disposal of a hair. The follicle can remove, such operation will solve a problem for half a year or longer.
Hygienic procedures
From puppyish age the owner should accustom a shih-tzu to gigiyentichesky procedures and eye care. Daily in the morning and after walk you perform inspection a peephole. If an eye does not water, clean, normal color, then he is healthy, it is not necessary to disturb him.
Remove slime in corners of eyes with the cotton pad moistened with the water cooled boiled or distilled. It is necessary to clean from an external corner of an eye to a nose.
Remove more dense allocations the gauze impregnated with physical solution, broth of a camomile, a calendula, a plantain or Furacilin. Do washing several times a day until inflammation takes place.
Some owners wash out an eyelid tea leaves, however some doctors consider that tannins irritate a cover, and because of it inflammation can only amplify, besides, tea leaves dry a cornea.
Supplement treatment with burying any disinfecting eye drops. Tetracycline ointment well cures inflammation of an eye at a shih-tzu, it should be put on 3 times a day within a week.
As required you carry out cleaning of deep folds under an internal corner of an eye. Take away hair of a dog a crest with short frequent teeths. Boric powder by means of a soft toothbrush clean all folds and remove the turned-out mix.
Prevention measures
For prevention dig in at least once a day "Diamond eyes", "Leopard", FitoElita or Dewdrop lotion. If to dig drops before bathing, then it will protect eyes from shampoo hit. And after removal of a mote of a drop will reduce risk of inflammation of a cornea. You should not be fond of these medicines, otherwise eyes will constantly water.
For reduction of risk of a trauma and pollution of a cornea do not walk with the pet on dusty streets and paths. At detection of scratches on a cornea dig Levomitsetin, Tsiprovet and see a doctor. The started damage can lead to formation of a cataract or cause more serious illness.
Diseases which are followed by dacryagogue
Seldom, but after all happens that eyes flow because of presence of a genetic disease. It is possible to find out presence of hereditary diseases from the manufacturer at acquisition of a puppy.
If allocations from eyes plentiful (gray, green, yellow color), are followed by the slackness increased by temperature, itch, lack of appetite, sneezing more than two days proceed - show the pet to the doctor. It is possible that dacryagogue is a collateral symptom of more serious disease. In most cases, the puppy quickly recovers if in time to address the veterinarian.
Protect the pets.