Cat litter in eye

Cats are kind of pets that are really playful and this feature sometimes put them in danger. One of this accident is Cat litter in eye. When they are playing in their cat litter, maybe they hurt their eyes or got the cat litter into their eyes.

If you’ve experienced like this, after that what did you do? In this article, we are going to explain you about what should do in this condition?

Cat litter in eye:

If your cat’s eyes hurt by cat litter and maybe dirty litter, what happen? does rinsing help in this situation. According to pet owner experiences, maybe rinsing is not a good solution for removing litter from cat’s eyes.

It depends on how much soiled the litter was amp and how much got into cat’s eyes. If cats rubbed their eyes can cause of scratch and may serve as a nidus for serious infection. About the people, rinsing or tear drop can be useful, but about animal are not always useful.

Cat litter clumps by adding water and you can’t put litter out from cat’s eyes. Sometimes, you can’t hold your cat calm for cure it and need to go to the vet or emergency immediately.

Because it can hurt to your cat vision and makes problem for it. In the rest of article, we will give you some advices about this situation and others one experiences.

What to do if Cat litter in cat eye?

For helping to your cat do these;

-A human holds your cat as a helper.

-Find a gadget like a syringe for squirting water in your cat eyes.

-It is really important that you use clean syringe that had never used for any chemical work. (if you can’t find anything, finally use a cup of water)

-Hold your cat on its side.

Read More: what is cat litter mat and its uses?

-Flush your cat’s eye with water (the temperature of water does not have to be very hot or cold, it must be medium) after flushing one eye, take rest it

-For one minute and then flush another eye. For flushing another eye, again put your cat on another side then do this. Continue this work until clumping up in the corner of your cat’s eyes.

-Make sure that your cat doesn’t touch its eyes till you have gotten out everything from its eyes. Because it makes scratch on its eyes.

-Finally, if you are not successful get out all things in its eyes or your cat’s eyes water a lot then go to vet immediately.

Toxoplasma Gondii in cat litter:

One of the parasites in cat litter is toxoplasma. Toxoplasma Gondii is single cell organism that lives within the host cells. This parasite can infect in different species of mammals for example humans and cats. But what is related between cat litter and toxoplasma?

At first, we must say, this parasite come from rate meat. And if the cat litter is polluted by this parasite, will hurt your cat. If by the accident, your cat’s eyes hurt by its litter, can make a really dangerous trouble for it.

And in some of situation toxoplasma can hurt the humans especially pregnant woman. If you want to know about how cat litter can hurt pregnant woman click on this link and read. “Cat litter in pregnant”

Read more: Cat litter in pregnancy

Real experience about cat litter in eye:

One of our friends has a cat. His cat has a little plastic nubs mat. One day his cat played with its mat and its nail got stuck. For removing the it, his cat put away its foot from mat and then the its nail was loosed and throw it to the air. Maybe you think it was funny, but all litter of mat dumped into its eyes.

His cat was blinking very fast and he brought it into the kitchen. It was so bad that he can see all litter in its eyes. It was clearly, his first thought was rinsing its eyes, but he realized, it was cat litter and when wet, will clump, so adding water made it worse.

If his cat blinked more, what happened? Process of flushing for cats are similar to people? Or flushing can get all out?

Finally, he called emergency of pets, and they told him; ” If his cat couldn’t be calm, will bring it there, but if He can control the cat, do by himself quickly.”

His cat cried and struggled a bit, but he could help it and flushed it eyes three times with 50 ml in every time. He was successful to pull out all litter from cat’s eyes. After that, the cat’s eyes got red and watery. After caring it during a week, did some tests for its vision.

It was a bad and advisedly experience for him to change the mat and use better cat litter for his cat. Bastetandanubis is an online pet shop that you can provide all your cat necessaries from it such as Bapet cat litter in best quality, cat food, cat scooper and etc.

Read more: Will cat litter keep mice away

What does Cat litter in eye impact?

• Infection
• redness
• Discharge
• Vision change

Conclusion:

in “Cat litter in eye” article, we tried to explain the situation that maybe happened to your cat, or what are your cat’s symptoms in this condition. How to care them in this situation and what to do?

Although cats are really cute and amazing animals, caring of them is important too. If you want to adapt any animals, you must make the condition that can live well there. The environment is really important factor to adapt them.

The next things that you have to pay attention are their food, their health, even their toys. Because sometimes maybe you buy some cat accessories and then they hurt it.

We know a lot of owners that bought cat collar for their cats, but it didn’t have good quality and will make a serious trouble for their cat, such as suffocation. If this article is useful for you, you can read our others blogs in bastetandanubis blog. Please share your idea with us.