Closing eyes and rubbing on branch

Shelby27

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Hello everybody I am new to chameleon keeping and I was hoping somebody could help me with this.
Here is some information:
Age/sex: ~4 month old female veiled chameleon
Purchased:I just received her yesterday from Lllreptile.com
-everything appears to be okay,
-shes eaten a few crickets today (however did miss a few times),
-drinks from the dripper,
Enclosure:she is in a 24x24x48 in screen cage.
-I've also misted her a few times.
- And she is shedding a little bit not sure if she is at the beginning or end, there are only a few lose pieces.
Basking spot: is 95 degrees at the hottest spot but she is not sitting under the light, shes sitting in an area that is 88 degrees at the moment.
Humidity: is at 50%.
there is bark substrate in the bottom of the cage.

My concern is, yesterday she fell off of a branch. I have noticed she keeps closing her eyes (she sits on a branch and just has her eyes closed sometimes) and rubbing them on branches occasionally. She was doing this before she fell off the branch as well.
-her eyes are not sunken in and nothing appears to be wrong with them otherwise.
 
Hello everybody I am new to chameleon keeping and I was hoping somebody could help me with this.
Here is some information:
Age/sex: ~4 month old female veiled chameleon
Purchased:I just received her yesterday from Lllreptile.com
-everything appears to be okay,
-shes eaten a few crickets today (however did miss a few times),
-drinks from the dripper,
Enclosure:she is in a 24x24x48 in screen cage.
-I've also misted her a few times.
- And she is shedding a little bit not sure if she is at the beginning or end, there are only a few lose pieces.
Basking spot: is 95 degrees at the hottest spot but she is not sitting under the light, shes sitting in an area that is 88 degrees at the moment.
Humidity: is at 50%.
there is bark substrate in the bottom of the cage.

My concern is, yesterday she fell off of a branch. I have noticed she keeps closing her eyes (she sits on a branch and just has her eyes closed sometimes) and rubbing them on branches occasionally. She was doing this before she fell off the branch as well.
-her eyes are not sunken in and nothing appears to be wrong with them otherwise.
Sometimes right after a shed they rub their eyes to remove dead skin. She also could have some of that in her eye or other debris. My Memphis just shed and had a small bit in one eye. I was able to loosen it and remove it with a warm wet paper towel.

If it doesn't get better soon you can GENTLY flush with clean water. Be careful with their eyes! You don't want to flush stuff deeper in her eye, so do so with care.
They can get eye infections if dead shed or other debris gets stuck. But I must stress that if you do try to flush her eye please do it ever so gently.

Hope that is a help
 
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