bearded dragon has a hard time opening his eyes.

Question
hello. I have a five month old berdy. I have had a lot of trouble with him, but I think I have fixed every thing except this. For 2 months I had a petisun uvb 10 (compact)light for him and it was around 10 inches away from him. He barly ate anything, and would seem to sleep all day. I took him to the vet and she said that he was good. She gave me stomic paraciet medicine for him just to be safe though. The tem in the cage is 102 on the rock and 85 in the cool side. the substrate is news papre and my knew light is reptisun uvb 10 tubing. (Not the bad compact type) The day that I put the new light in, he seemed not to be seening his food. so I looked at his left eye and it was stuck shut with some sorta brown oozzy stuff. I gentaly dripped some water on it and let it soak. after that I took a cotton swab and wiped it out of his eye. today it was like this again exepct much harder, and in the same eye. Please help and do not say take him to the vet:) I just took him befor this whole eye ordeal

thanks for your help, Kyle

Answer
Hello Kyle,

Ok, first off great that you replaced the Reptisun 10 compact, those are extremely hazardous lights.  How much time did you give his eyes to rest between lights?
I recommend for the moment, to turn off the Reptisun 10 flourescent tube bulb for 2-3 weeks.  He has suffered extensive radiation which has damaged the corneas.
Just use a bright white basking light right now.  He will be ok for a short bit with no UVB.  His eyes need a break from the UVB to heal up.
What you need to do now is to get some saline solution & use it daily in his eyes to help clean them out.  Also, get some antibiotic eye ointment from here:

http://www.beanfarm.com/store/agora.cgi?cart_id=4504191.21590&product=Health_Car...

He should start improving for you soon, so let me know how he is doing.  
I think you will be surprised what a week or two without UVB will do for his eyes.  He essentially has a condition similar to "snow blindness"  which make his eyes very sensitive.

Tracie