What is glaucome? Glaucome (or green cataract) is an eye diseasse
which increase the pressure in the eye ball. Whitout tretment the eye will
damage, which results in blindness.
How does an owner recognize glaucome?
Mostly it start with one eye, which as main symptom redness
from the blood vessels around the eye, visible if you pull up the upper
eyelid. At first is the mucous membrane not red or swollen, this is how
glaucome distinguish from conjuctivitis.Beside that the cornea can coloured
blue. The pupil is wide open, even when you shine with a flashlight in the
eye. The dog has much headache and is listless. On the side where the glaucome
is, the dog is blind.
Glaucome is a rare diseasse and can be misjudge as conjuctivitis. Conjuctivitis
is a much common inflammation of the mucous membrane of the eye, whereby
the mucous membrane around the eye is red and swollen and often pus is coming
out of the eye. This ailment is mostly harmless and easy to heal.
A second offen occurs diseasse, which most old dogs get is the grubby
cataract. With this diseasse the lens becomes blurred, which sometimes is
visable as a bleu color. The big different with glaucome is that an animal
with cataract normally behaves and that the discolouration is not present
on the cornea but clear after the lens.
In much cases glaucome is due to heredity, primair glaucome. Unfortunately
it's not possible when the disaese occurs treat succesfully. Not uncommon
is that in the other eye also glaucome will come.
A secondary glaucome can develop after a trauma from the eye, where an
internal eye inflammation develop. Even through some medications glaucome
can develop.
IThe medication for glaucome consist of reduce the eyeball pressure through
pills and eyedrops. Depending what the reaction is on the medicaments can
be decided to gon on whit them or to remove the eye.
A dog which is blind can live a good life. Blindness alone is not enough
reason to put the dog asleep. Every patient need to be judged as an individual,
always in good consultation with the owner, who is the most specialist to
see if the dog has a good life or not.
For further information you can go to your own vet.
source of information: Maja Pesman, Vet, Animalclinic De Haarstede
On this page I will place the dogs who are tested against glaucoma after
Gonioscopie !!
I hope that also foreighn breeders see that it’s necessary and that
they let their dogs test for this cruel diseasse. They can also mail me
so that I can place their tested dogs here on the site. I hope that this
site is a start so that all breeders will help to banned this diseasse.
Because I want that you can make a justify choice for buying a puppy or
mating your dog, I creat this page.
So if you want that your glaucoma tested dogs name is on my list please
mail me.
My emailadres is: jeanne@obsessioninblue.eu
I will look at your request as fast as possible and if everything is okay
your dog will put on this page
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