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Tom-cat and the grass-seed
Domestic short-haired tom-cat Loca was brought to our surgery in a very poor condition after the long season of territorial fights. Unfortunately for him, this year apart from weakness and thinness, Loca had more serious problem: he couldn't open his left eye. He also didn't permit his owners to get a better look of the affected eye.
We examined Loca as much as he allowed us to and we found out that he was cachectic, that his coat was in a very poor condition and that he had few biting wounds. He also had a yellowish discharge from his left ear. He didn't allowed examination of his left eye.
The next step was to sedate Loca to enable us to have a better look of his eye.
Grass –seed within Loca's eye | | 
Comparation betwwen the size
of the grass-seed and the eye |
The grass-seed which
was removed | | 
Fluorescin test showing
a large ulcer |
When we sedated Loca and opened his eye we discovered the cause of his discomfort: there was a grass seed stack in his eye. We removed the grass seed straight away. With a special stain called Fluorescin we checked for the eye damage. After putting the drop of Fluorescin into Loca's eye we were able to see large corneal ulcer which affected more then a half of the cornea. Luckily ulcer was only affected cornea and not deeper parts of the eye.
Treatment for Loca was prescribed and Loca was booked for a check – up on a 7 days time. Loca's eye would be checked with Fluorescin again so we could see if the ulcer healed. If the ulcer healed then the other treatment for reducing the scar could be prescribed.
We already have lots of grass seed cases in dogs but this was the first case of the grass seed affecting a cat this year.
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