rabbit eye problem continues

Question
A year or so ago, my lop rabbit got a scratch in his eye from a fight with another rabbit. We used fucidic eye cream and the infection cleared up but he was left with a hole in the middle of his clear eye lens. He could see fine and there was no problem until recently when two weeks ago he escaped and came into contact with the other rabbit for a couple of minutes. Somehow during that time, something happened to his eye, we don't know what, but we think he had a scratch on his head just above his eye. His eye got gunky and watery, so we used the fucilthalmic viscous eye drops again and polysporin on the skin above his eye (not in his eye). We used the fucidic viscous eye drops for a week, but when we stopped the eye drops it got watery again a couple of days later. His eye seems to be only half open most of the time, although it is not gunky or watery  now it is cloudy white around the hole in his eye lens that happened last year. The cloudy white is about the size of a very small lentil. The gunk and water cleared up and the skin got better. He still has vision in that eye, and we have continued the eye drops. Is there anything we can do besides going to a vet? We are afraid the vet will just give us the same eye drops again and it will be a waste of time and money. There are no vets near us that have good knowledge of rabbits.

Answer
Hi,

You need stronger medicine for the eye and it needs to be given far longer than just one week.  We are talking 2 months at least.  This is very serious, you don't want to lose the ye, the surgeries around a rabbit's eye is extremely dangerous as there is a big artery behind it.

Go here:  www.rabbit.org/vets/vets.HTML

And search the Canadian listings for rabbit vets.  They may give you two kinds of drops.  Chloramphenicol is one very common with eye problems.  But you need prescription antibiotics and you need to give them for a long period without missing a day.