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Sometimes administering medicines to a dog can be a totally stressful
thing. They will sometimes make you chase them around the house
just to be able to administer the medicines. In fact it would
require you be very skillful and extra sneaky just to administer
the medicines. However you should also be wary of the bite that
it might give you when you piss it off. The
most common areas where a dog has problems are usually the eyes.
If you are having a hard time to administer the medicines at
your dog’s eyes here are some tips that might make your life
easier. These might also save you some fingers.
Eye Medication:
Method 1
• Get some help to keep your dog from moving around. Make the
other person hold the chest and front legs. If the dog is small
it can be wrapped firmly in a towel or blanket.
• With the lid off, place the medication in your dominant hand.
• If you are right handed and the medication is needed on the
right eye, you can stabilize your hand by resting it on top
of the dog’s head. The hand should be positioned near the inner
side of the eye, the closets part to the nose. Use the thumb
of your left-hand in the lower eyelid and for the upper eyelid,
the forefinger should be used. Follow the same procedure if
you are left-handed.
• If the left eye needs medication and you are left-handed,
stand on the dog’s right side facing the dog in the same direction.
Place left thumb on the upper part of the eyelid and the index
finger of your left hand near the lower part of the eyelid.
• Then spread the eyelids apart using the thumb and forefinger.
• Put the medication on the surface of the eye. You can also
place it between the small gap between the surface of the eye
and the lower eyelid. Be careful not to harm the eye by touching
its surface with the medication’s container.
• To spread the medication over the eye of your dog, open and
close the eyelid for a couple of times.
Method
2
• If the medication is an ointment only squeeze 1/8” out of
the tube. The free hand should hold the dog’s head. The other
hand should touch the eyelids’ crease, closest to the nose with
the medication. The medication should be put where the 2 eyelids
meet. The exposed ointment of the tube’s tip will cause your
pet to blink.
• To prevent the tube from touching the cornea, the third eyelid
will move upward when the corner of the eyelids have been touched.
• Be careful not to touch the cornea with the tube when applying
the medication at the outside corner of the eyelids because
it has no third eyelids.
• Clean the tube after administering the medication with a fresh
tissue or cotton and put the cap back. |
