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Weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;">Successful Treatment of a corneal scratch or eye infection includes:

1) Make sure they wear an E-Collar at all times to prevent pawing at the face, and self trauma which can either delay healing.

2) Systemic pain medication (NSAIDS such as Rimadyl or Deramaxx and/or systemic opiods such as Tramadol) as well as topical (drops) such as Atropine to decrease discomfort.

3) Topical (drops) antibiotics. VERY important for this - to prevent secondary eye infections while it is healing. Soap and water unfortunately can be irritating to the eye and even possibly worsen the irritation and infection.

4) There are even products such as the Virbac Remend product which has hyaluron and cross linking technology to speed healing of ulcers - for complete healing in as little as 2 days (LINK HERE)

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