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Guck in geckos eye

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QUESTION: We just got the skin of my  gecko's eye and found out he has guck in his eye and he wont open it unless he's really scared or hears something weird and now his eye is shrivled up and im a bit concerned he might have a eye infection of some sort could you help?

ANSWER: Hello Liv,

Great you got the skin off of your gecko's eye.  So does his eye look infected?  If the shed was on his eye for too long, that most likely caused his eye to shrivel up.  Does he have any sight in his eye at all?  
You will need to get some sterile saline solution for his eye, to wash it out with.  You can get Terramycin, which is antibiotic eye ointment that you can get from here:
http://www.beanfarm.com/store/agora.cgi?cart_id=3348736.25224&product=Health_Car


Tracie

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QUESTION: It looks like it's actrually skin in his eye not guck and when i checked to see if he can see out of his eyes he didn't move or anything i dont know if that means he's not scared of me or he's blind.

Answer
Hello Liv,

It is just one eye, correct?  Do you have a picture of that for me, perhaps?
If you will move your hand back & forth he should have some type of reaction to that.  You had mentioned his eye looking shriveled up so it is a possibility of him being partially blind in that eye.

Tracie