Cloudy eye

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I woke up to my cat's right eye looking completely white (like milky looking). We have a vet appt at 1015 this morning, but I wanted to see if anyone on here has experienced this. Could it be a complication from the diabetes or just an eye infection? She has never had any health issues before, so it makes me think it's related to the diabetes.

Also, if the vet puts her on antibiotics, I know to avoid steroids but anything else I should make sure the vet doesn't give her?
 
You also want to avoid both Metacam and Convenia both have been known to cause life threatening issues in cats. Metacam is a pain reliever so probably not an issue with the eye problem. There is a Black Box warning on it for use in cats.

Convenia is an antibiotic that is suppose to last up to two weeks, but some cats have a very adverse reaction to it and unfortunately there is no way of knowing which cats until it is given and then much like insulin once given you can't get it out of the cat.

Mel and The Fur Gang
 
I personally have all my cats files marked at the vet's office as DO NOT GIVE WITHOUT OWNER'S CONSENT with a bright red label that I printed out and ask them to apply. Both can be useful in some situations like palliative care at end of life in the case of Metacam, and I have used Convenia with ferals that I knew I couldn't reliably give oral antibiotics. I just want to make sure that I have the say so about when it is given.

Mel and The Fur Gang
 
They told me her eye was cloudy due to inflammation caused by the diabetes. They said the sugar in her blood stream got into the eye causing the inflammation. Does that sound right? They gave me two eye drops to give her twice a day to take down the inflammation.

Anyone else experience this?
 
If it happened overnight, I'd be inclined to think infection, not inflammation.
Cataract can be a complication of diabetes, and it usually starts slowly and progresses.

What is in the drops?
 
Unfortunately, it is a steroid anti-inflammatory drop and the other is just a saline solution because the other drops may dry out her eye. The vet even mentioned not wanting to give a steroid to a diabetic, but we needed to get the inflammation down as her eye could rupture if left untreated. He told me to watch her BG levels closely and if we see any indication that it is affecting her then to call him immediately. He is hoping that since it is only drops and not a pill it won't affect her BG levels. IDK - do you think that is okay?

He doesn't think it is an infection because there is no redness, swelling, or puss coming from the eye.
 
Steroids are necessary. You will just have to compensate which likely means increase the insulin dose. Just be careful when yo stop the steroid.
 
Our suggestion is to adjust the insulin as needed based on home testing. Typpically eye and ear drops with steroid have less effect than oral or injected steroids.

Good luck.
 
Larry and Kitties said:
Steroids are necessary. You will just have to compensate which likely means increase the insulin dose. Just be careful when yo stop the steroid.
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That was my thought too. I asked the doctor if we could try something else other than steroids and he said we can but she might end up losing her eye. I would rather risk the steroids... nailbite_smile
 
BJM said:
Our suggestion is to adjust the insulin as needed based on home testing. Typpically eye and ear drops with steroid have less effect than oral or injected steroids.

Good luck.
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Thank you! I will watch her closely and adjust as needed to compensate for any BG fluctuations.
 
JennyBankers said:
That was my thought too. I asked the doctor if we could try something else other than steroids and he said we can but she might end up losing her eye. I would rather risk the steroids... nailbite_smile
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I understand. Even though she has never been diabetic, when I adopted Chloe she had an infection in her eye. It took about 2 months of several daily meds and weekly trips to the vet before we were able to clear it up.

She turned out to be the most expensive cat I adopted, but she is worth every penny. :mrgreen:
 
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