天竺鼠被草刺傷眼睛怎麼辦？

天竺鼠吃牧草時常常不顧儀態，喜歡把頭塞進草堆裡，如果牧草杆子太尖硬，是會有刺傷眼睛的危險的。主人要每天檢查天天的身體，包括眼睛，天天就算眼睛受傷，也可能像沒事似的。

如何判別天竺鼠的眼睛被刺傷了？

• 眼球呈現不正常的藍色
• 眼睛混濁
• 有異常的分泌物或眼屎
• 眼泛淚光

以下是發生在我家的真實案例：

時維2014年12月19日，養了這麼多年，我第一次遇到這情況：沙沙被草插進眼眶﹗

 
剛入了新的提草，草比我平時餵的草尖硬，放在草袋，晚上回家時發現沙沙眼睛有點不對勁，細看原來是上眼角插了一根草，馬上用眉毛夾幫牠拔了出來，但眼角膜已被刮花了。

看了醫生，要滴抗生素眼藥水Ofloxacin(氧氟沙星)，第一天二十四小時內滴三次，然後每天滴兩次，再加上每天滴人工淚水三至四次，兩種眼藥水要分開大槪十五分鐘滴。

因為沙沙一切如常，這隻死肥豬，眼睛被草插着還四處跑，吃飽就倒頭睡，完全沒事似的，所以不用吃止痛藥，隔了一星期，眼睛已好多了，還要回診。

所以平時要留意寶貝的眼睛，看到異常的灰藍色或像結了一層霧氣的，就很有可能是被草刺傷，記着要速去看醫生。

草袋已撤，那箱新草也給我扔了，怕怕……

網上搜集到的天竺鼠被牧草刺傷眼睛的案例(附圖片)和獸醫的治療方法

那些英文網站早已消失了，幸好保存了英文原文和當時的譯文。

案例一

(英文原文)

Here is a photo of a guinea pig with hay poke. The eye of my boy who got hay poke looked drier, it was also very blood shot. I found a piece of hay under his eyelid then carefully removed it as it was in an easily accessible spot, I then gave him some sterile saline eye drops which I had from previous eye injury experience to lubricate the eye. He went to the vets a few hours later and got some lubricating eye drops with antibiotics in then because the hay had scratched his eye. Three days later and he was back to his old self with his eye looking as good as new.

(撮譯+本人意見，見按語)

這是一張被乾粮草刺傷了眼球的天竺鼠照。看上去眼球比較乾。主人在眼瞼下找到一條草，於是小心地把草拿走，因為那位置恰巧不難，然後主人給天竺鼠用消毒鹽水沖眼，即人可用那種(不是自己用鹽加水)，原來這主人甚有這方面的經驗，以前天竺鼠也試過被草刺傷眼球。幾小時後，主人帶天竺鼠去看獸醫，醫生給了滋潤眼睛的抗生素眼藥水(主人沒有提名字)，用抗生素的原因是因為天竺鼠眼球被刮傷了。三天後，天竺鼠的眼睛回復正常，像從前一樣。

案例二 (發生在2009年)

Last night I noticed that Chester, one of our Sanctuary piggies, was squinting his right eye. He had seemed fine 24 hours previously.  Closer examination revealed reddish discharge and a matte, foggy area in the cornea, consistent with an eye injury. Our last box of hay contained a number of very stemmy bits, so I wasn’t terribly surprised by this type of injury.

昨晚我發現收容所的天竺鼠Chester【魔鬼小編按：這位主人是開收容所的】瞇起右眼，24小時前它還沒事的【魔鬼小編按：這位主人很細心﹗】我仔細檢查它的眼睛，發現有紅色分泌，角膜處沒有光澤和模糊，像是受傷了。我最後一盒乾粮草有很多杆子的，所以我對此不以為奇。

Guinea pigs are surprisingly prone to eye injuries, especially those caused by foreign bodies. We house them in a world filled with dry particulate matter – wood chip bedding, dusty hay, etc – and it’s quite common for these materials to cause minor eye trauma.  A pig owner should always be on the lookout for discharge, crustiness, or abrasions on the surface of the eye itself. [For more information, visit the Guinea Lynx page on Eyes.]

天竺鼠的眼睛是很容易受傷的，特別是因外物所致的受傷。我們把天竺鼠放在乾的東西上，例如木屑、有塵粉的乾粮草等【魔鬼小編按：所以選墊材要小心，不建議用木屑，我在獸醫診所也見過一隻眼睛嚴重受傷的 天竺鼠 ，墊材就是木屑加不明物體】，這些東西都很容易令天竺鼠眼睛輕微受傷的。天竺鼠主人應該常常注意天竺鼠眼睛有沒有異常分泌、眼屎或刮傷。詳情可以參看Guinea Lynx的眼睛一章。

It’s useful to have a bottle of sterile saline eye drops on hand to rinse an eye if a tiny particle of hay or bedding gets in it – that’s usually quite minor. However, if there’s any cloudiness in the cornea or sign of actual injury (including red, bloody discharge), a vet visit is essential. If the cornea has been damaged, the eye requires protective drops or ointments until it heals, and only a vet can determine if this is the case.

家裡最好有一瓶生理鹽水(消了毒的氯化鈉，沖洗隱型眼鏡那種)，一旦有草碎或(木屑)墊材入了眼睛，也可以把它沖出來。這種情形通常很輕微的。但是，如果天竺鼠角膜出現混濁，或者真的受傷了(紅了、流血)，一定要去看獸醫。如果角膜受傷了，眼睛需要滴保護性的眼藥水或塗藥膏，直至痊癒為止，而且只有獸醫才可以作出判斷。

In Chester’s case, I’ve seen enough of these to know that he had an abrasion injury and he needed immediate vet treatment. We headed off to our emergency vet, the wonderful Dr. Koeppl at the Madison Emergency Clinic for Animals. I expected this to be a simple poke-type injury from the stemmy hay, but to my surprise, the examination found a bit of hay entrapped underneath the eyelid, which I had not seen on my own examination. Dr Koeppl tried to remove it with a cotton swab, but resistance showed that it was possibly partly embedded. The end of the hay was raised off of the eye’s surface, so Dr. Koeppl was able to grasp it with tweezers. It ended up being not just a small piece of hay, but a fullthree and three-quarter inch-long strand, which had been wrapped around and around under the eyelids. Dr. Koeppl expressed amazement and recorded the incident for posterity:

說回Chester的情況，我以前也見過這種情況，所以知道這是刮傷了，要看獸醫。我馬上帶牠去看我們一流的看急症獸醫Dr. Koeppl【醫院名稱不譯出來了】。我以為只是很簡單的被杆子刺傷了，但出乎意料之外，檢查發現，眼球被一條草繞着，我檢查時沒看出來。醫生嘗試用棉花球把草拿出來但不成功，好像有部分藏在裡面。草尾在眼球的表面露了出來，於是醫生可以用鋏子把草夾出來。最後發現這不是草碎，而是一條三又四分三寸(9.5公分)的長草，在眼瞼下纏了幾圈，連醫生也很詫異，並把它記錄下來給後人看。

Hay has sharp edges and there was significant abrasion to both the cornea and the underside of the lids. Chester seemed to immediately feel much better, becoming much calmer and laying down in his carrier for some much-needed rest. He’s on Metacam for discomfort and antibiotic ophthalmic ointment every 4-6 hours to help heal the corneal injury. I certainly am glad I saw something was wrong as soon as we did – if I hadn’t noticed, the pain might have led him to claw his own eye out! We go back to our regular vet in 3-4 days for another corneal stain to check how it’s healing. 

乾粮草有點尖利，而且眼角膜和下眼瞼有明顯的刮傷。天竺鼠馬上好了好多，乖乖的躺在外帶籠裡休息。醫生開了Metacam【魔鬼小編按：一種天竺鼠常用的止痛藥，滴劑，劑量按天竺鼠重量而定，用前請查清楚】和抗生素眼藥膏，每4至6小時用一次，幫助角膜痊癒。我很高興自己能及時發現天竺鼠不妥，如果我沒有發現的話，天竺鼠可能用爪子把眼睛抓了出來。3至4天後會去診所複診檢查康復情況。 

總結

如上所述， 天竺鼠眼睛一旦受傷，請趕快去看獸醫，不要延誤，因為眼睛發炎嚴重的話，可能會因此而失掉這顆眼睛而變瞎的。

(原文寫於2013年10月29日和2014年12月24日，本文為修訂版)