PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!

[sammnadine]

so my 2 month old female chameleon has been bulging out both of her eyes for the past two days and scratching them on the vines/branches. is this something I should be concerned about? it's more often today than it was yesterday, I'm really worried. please please help!!

 

[brownie64]

If they are going back in, and she is not closing them all the time it's nothing to worry about she is just cleaning, and adjusting them. I know it can look pretty unsettling the first time you see it, but it's what they do.

 

[sammnadine]

If they are going back in, and she is not closing them all the time it's nothing to worry about she is just cleaning, and adjusting them. I know it can look pretty unsettling the first time you see it, but it's what they do.

that's a relief. could she do it more often in a glass tank? she's in a glass right now but will be moving to a screen when I get. (should be this week)

 

[brownie64]

I don't think the glass has anything to do with it. They just do that to adjust, and clean their eyes.

 

[jajeanpierre]

so my 2 month old female chameleon has been bulging out both of her eyes for the past two days and scratching them on the vines/branches. is this something I should be concerned about? it's more often today than it was yesterday, I'm really worried. please please help!!

If she is doing it a lot it means something is bothering her eyes. I would mist her like crazy, make sure it is just the really fine foggy mist that lands on her face. I've heard warm water helps. If she won't tolerate a fine mist landing on her face, try using artificial tears. Use the artificial tears without any preservative in them (they're more expensive in individual single-use packets). I suppose you could also make up a sterile saline solution. Keep flushing the eyes. Come back here with pictures of her eyes if that doesn't solve the problem.

 

[gotwqqd]

Saline for contacts is cheap and sterile

 

[sammnadine]

If she is doing it a lot it means something is bothering her eyes. I would mist her like crazy, make sure it is just the really fine foggy mist that lands on her face. I've heard warm water helps. If she won't tolerate a fine mist landing on her face, try using artificial tears. Use the artificial tears without any preservative in them (they're more expensive in individual single-use packets). I suppose you could also make up a sterile saline solution. Keep flushing the eyes. Come back here with pictures of her eyes if that doesn't solve the problem.

this actually makes a lot of sense.. she closes her eyes and turns her head away usually when I'm misting her or her cage! thank you, I'll definitely try it out!