chocolate lab with conjunctivitis, vet bill for £50?

gettingready

Very reasonable, consult alone at my vets is over £35

Dasa

Consultation fee £35 for us too.

F_Bear

thanks for all replies.

happy it was a fair price. wispa is almost fully better now.

nikki702

It would have cost me approx £35 just to walk through the door lol

Fire_Fox

Please DO NOT ignore an eye infection or self treat, you can end up with a secondary infection or permanent damage to the eye. Conjunctivitis will not necessarily clear up on it's own or with boiled water, it's hugely irresponsible to advise that and against forum rules. :mad:

moggymutt

I would not just get stuff from chemist or do any form of self diagnosis- it is vital eye gets checked for an ulcer, scratch, or anything else nasty. I took one of our cats with a runny eye to the vets last week, and the orange colouring they put in the eye revealed a nasty ulcer. Lack of treatment could have cost her her eye.

£50 seems very reasonable.

tango

moggymutt wrote: »

I would not just get stuff from chemist or do any form of self diagnosis- it is vital eye gets checked for an ulcer, scratch, or anything else nasty. I took one of our cats with a runny eye to the vets last week, and the orange colouring they put in the eye revealed a nasty ulcer. Lack of treatment could have cost her her eye.

£50 seems very reasonable.

Or it could have cleared without . Of course eye infections can be serious. But we should not run to the vet every time animals get an ailment. Infact the advice by our GP with regards to conjuctivitis in humans is no longer antibiotic drops but cold compress as the first line of treatment.
Sometimes have faith that the animal will manage to get better without vet intervention. Save the Vet trips for when they are needed.

meames_2

Womble had conjunctivitis and it was about £50, - £20 is for the initial consultation and then the meds on top of that. Most of the meds ended up over me rather than in his eye as he refused to sit still. Yet he let the vet use tweezers in his eye.....

sharpe32

Our choccy lab gets it about once every two years. We still take him to the vets just to be sure but when i had it i was advised just to bathe my eye with salt water - it worked but i am happy to experiment on myself but not my dog!

tango

sharpe32 wrote: »

Our choccy lab gets it about once every two years. We still take him to the vets just to be sure but when i had it i was advised just to bathe my eye with salt water - it worked but i am happy to experiment on myself but not my dog!

Which says it all- we don't trust our pets , we rush them down to the vets. When there is something wrong with ourselves we often delay going to the doctors , where is the logic in that ?