Medicating Eyes
After cleansing, specific prescription therapy may need to be instilled into a cat’s eye in those cases when illness is present. These eye preparations are generally liquid or ointment formulations.
Liquid Eye Medication
- Warm ointment to room or body temperature before treatment.
- Avoid touching the ointment tip to the eye or hairs around the eye. This will help prevent injury or sudden movements due to sensitivity. Keep applicator tip about 1/2-1 cm away from the surfaces.
- Lay ointment gently on the surface of the eyeball between the lids and gently rub the medication around by using fingers above and below the eye on the lids to massage it.
- Restrain cat in the same fashion as for eye cleaning or liquid eye formulation administration.
- Come from above and behind the eye to reduce the chances he will have a strong adverse reaction due to reflexes associated with protection from being hit in the eye.

Ointment Eye Medications
If ointment needs to be applied, consider the following tips to help you get it in the eye, and not on you.

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