Anyone done Cryo on distichia?
Submitted by Maggie and Sadi... on May 5, 2012 - 8:44pmWe've had it done at the vet's twice, but Maggie needs it done again. The vet said she's never seen a dog with so many eyelashes and as soon as she'd freeze them, more would pop out. Maggie just turned 2 in January. My concern goes several ways - I hate to keep putting her to sleep, but I don't want the eyelashes to cause an ulcer on her eye. My vet referred us to an opthamologist. The opthamologist said they have a stronger machine than the vet for cryo. He asked if her eyes were swollen after the vet did it, which they were not. He said they would be swollen and that she will lose some pigmentation around her eye, but it "should" come back. This is one of my other concerns - the loss of pigmentation. Has anyone had this done and did the pigmentation come back? Completely?
We had one with distichia and...
had it surgically fixed while he had entropian surgery at the same time. They cut a slit from corner to corner and then stitched it so that his eyelashes would turn out enough to not touch the eye, hard to explain, but it worked and he never had a problem with it again.
You are discribing the entropian surgery
Distichia is not the same thing.
Cryo on distichia
I had a bully about 7 years ago that had this procedure done. She was less than a year old when she had the procedure. Her pigment did come back and right off I don't remember swelling but like I said it was about 7 years ago. Unfortunately Lilly died when she was only 4 1/2 years old (mass on her heart that was cancerous :( ) She did not get anymore eyelashes after having to procedure done while she was alive but if she would have lived longer it's hard to say if they would have eventually grown back.
Our vet mentioned cutting the lids open also
She said it's a terrible recovery though, so we were wanting to avoid that as the resolution for Maggie. That's why our vet was hoping the opthamologist just had a stronger cryo machine, which luckily they do.
Actually, Oscar did quite well with this procedure...
he healed up nicely and had no further problems. It was a little tricky for the vet to figure out exactly how much skin to remove though.