Foamy/Bubbly eye?!

[Pine18]

Just recently I 've noticed my green cheek conure has a clear foamy/water bubbles on one eye! It does disappear when she shakes it off or takes a bath - I am worried sometimes the bubble are so big it covers the entire eye, the bubbles appears once or twice a week temporarily
Last month I've had to take her to a non avian vet(no avian vets nearby)to treat an eye trauma and she was given an eye gel for treatment. Significant improvement after one week treatment-but then this..
I am extremely worried this is another infection! Has anyone seen this condition on a parrot? Please let me know if any info /advises can be given!

 

[SailBoat]

You need to contact an Avian Expert in your Country! Your local Vet should have an Avian Expect that can be contacted when faced with Avian clients that have special needs. If your local Animal Clinic will not make such contact than (sadly) it becomes your responsibility.

There are Avian Experts in your Country and you can web search for their contact information. It is possible that individual may agree to work with your local Vet to have Blood Chem and/or other testing done locally. You will likely and should pay for the consulting work the Avian Vet completes in addition to your local Vet.

It is possible that you MAY have a local animal Eye Expert and if so, have your local Vet get you an appointment with that individual.

 

[EllenD]

I remember the situation with your Green Cheek, she had some type of scratch or wound to the lens of her eye, and they put her on Gentamycin ointment to prevent a bacterial infection from setting-in while the eye healed itself...I don't think she actually had any infection, but rather a trauma that they deemed to be superficial and just had to heal, which is exactly what any Avian Vet would have done, as superficial eye injuries/traumas just have to have time to heal on their own, and you can only give an antibiotic to prevent an infection from happening, and maybe some pain meds, and that's it...However, now since this is the same eye that was originally injured, this just got pretty serious; I don't think it's infected, that would actually be the better of the possibilities unfortunately...Usually when an eyeball is producing clear-colored "bubbles" like you're describing, it's because the membrane around the eye that protects the Intra-Ocular Space in the middle of the eye has been bridged, and the fluid inside the eye is leaking-out, while air is seeping-in to the Intra-Ocular Space, thus causing the resulting "bubbles"..So you need to get your Green Cheek to either an Avian Vet or a Veterinary Eye Specialist ASAP, because the longer this goes on, the more-likely she'll lose the eye is...

Since it's the same eye that is having the "bubbles" form in it as the eye that was originally scratched/injured, chances are that this new issue is related to the actual injury/scratch that the eye sustained and not anything that has to do with an infection...It could be, but you're not describing any type of "discharge" from the eye, which is typical of an infected eye, they seep a thick, ***** kind of discharge when they are infected...Clear "bubbles" in and all over the surface of the eye is more indicative of an open-injury of the eye, one that is letting air into the eye itself, which is a serious issue that needs immediate medical attention, because the end result is typically an eye that is non-visual and painful, and that they end-up removing...So in my opinion this isn't an infection, but rather the original injury to the eye didn't actually heal correctly, and there may be an open-wound in your birds eye that is allowing air to get under/into the eye itself and then seep back out, causing the air-bubbles you're seeing...I've seen this is humans before when they suffer a puncture to their eyeballs, like when they run into a tree-branch/stick or poke themselves with something else right in their eyeball...The eyeball itself is filled with Ocular-Fluid, and when the membrane under the lens of the eye is breeched, the fluid leaks out, and this is why you aren't supposed to remove anything from your eye that you get stuck in it, as terrifying and painful as it is, if you pull it out the fluid will leak out and the eye will be non-visual and have to be removed...So if your bird's original injury to it's eye was thought to be a scratch or puncture to the lens, but they didn't see any penetration through into the Intra-Ocular Space so they thought that it was just a superficial wound that would heal, but it actually was a penetrating wound into the Intra-Ocular Space, or it's also possible that the wound was originally superficial and then progressed into a penetrating wound, then it's quite possible that air is seeping into the eye and the clear fluid is seeping out, causing the bubbles.

So either way, you absolutely need to get her to either a Certified Avian Vet, Avian Specialist Vet, or as Sailboat said a Veterinary Eye Specialist (they treat eye injuries and disease in ALL ANIMALS/PETS), and get her there ASAP, because the longer it does this, the greater the chance that she will lose the eye...Now pet birds can live just fine with only one eye, so don't freak-out yet, but you have to also worry about Infection getting into the eye and spreading, plus the fact that penetrating eye-injuries where the fluid seeps out and air gets in are usually very painful...And if you can get it taken-care of immediately, then the chances of her keeping her eye are much better, if that's what is going on (it does sound like it to me)...

 

[GaleriaGila]

Most of us swear by our avian vets in the event of health concerns.
Certified Avian Vets
https://abvp.com/animal-owners/find-an-abvp-specialist/
If none are near you...
Avian Veterinarians
http://www.aav.org/search/custom.asp?id=1803
In my opinion, any of the vets listed here should be better than a regular vet.
International contacts, too.

 

[bug_n_flock]

In ducks this is an indication of respiratory infections. Never thought I would be hoping a bird had a ri, but here we are. I agree: CAV time. Crossing my fingers it is just a respiratory infection!

 

[bug_n_flock]

How is your little buddy doing?