A Must-Add To Your Whelping Kit: Newborn Puppy Eye Infection Treatment

Here’s an essential add to your Whelping Kit.

This is an incredible treatment that I just stumbled across for newborn puppy eye infections.  And it’s useful for a wide range of issues.

If you’ve never had this happen to your puppies, you won’t know what I’m talking about, but I can reassure you that it’s one of the scariest things that has ever happened to me! (And as a vet and breeder of 30 years, that’s saying something!)

Last year I had a newly whelped litter of nine puppies. When they were only two days old, I noticed that one of them had an enlarged bulging eye.   And of course their eyelids were still fused shut.

My first thought was, “Ooh, I haven’t seen that before. That must be some kind of deformity.” I couldn’t think what else it could be!  So I thought I’d just keep a watch on it…

The next day when I looked, there were three or four puppies that had bulgy eyes, and I thought, “My goodness, what is going on here? Must be some kind of infection!”

And then I did a bit of research and realized I had a puppy eye infection outbreak on my hands.

Newborn Puppy Eye Infection Treatment

Then, like everyone else, I Googled it looking for what I could do to fix it.  The problem is that the pus can’t get out because the eyelids are fused and weren’t set to open for more than a week.  As the pus builds up it puts pressure on the eyeball and can cause permanent blindness!

The treatment that I found on the internet was horrific.

It said “force their eyelids open,” like basically tear them open to release the pus and so that you can clean the eyes of the whole litter every couple of hours.  And I thought, “This is going to be a nightmare.”

Before I went to bed that night, I thought, “I’ll deal with this in the morning. It’s 10 o’clock at night. I don’t want to do it while I’m tired. I’ll sort it out in the morning, but before I do, I’ll just dab a bit of colloidal silver on each of those eyes.”

It’s the least I could do. I couldn’t think of anything else I could do that might help. So I just dabbed each puppy’s eyes with colloidal silver-soaked cotton wool through their eyelids.  I went to bed that night with a huge sense of foreboding of what I was going to have to face in the morning.

Colloidal Silver Worked Like Magic!

I woke up the next morning and then I picked up the first puppy, all ready to go with all the gear I needed to deal with this, and I thought, “Ah, this one’s okay. It must be some of the other ones.” I put it back and I went through every puppy, and every puppy was cured!

Yes, every puppy had been cured overnight from one dab of colloidal silver through the skin of the eyelid.

So guys, if you ever see a puppy with a enlarged “poppy” eye, treat it early. Just get good old colloidal silver, and dab it on the eyes of every puppy (because they’re likely to all have the infection). Dab it on every eye and do it a couple of times a day for a couple of days, and it will clean up the infection like magic.

As an interesting aside, until the 1950s, all newborn human babies born in hospital routinely had drops of colloidal silver put in their eyes to protect them from the possibility of blindness from gonorrhea picked up as they went through the vaginal tract during birth.

It’s very, very safe, and you can’t hurt their eyes with it.   I use it widely for all sorts of applications. I even sterilize surgical instruments in it for surgery!

Colloidal silver has been tested against every microbe you can think of:  fungus, viruses, bacteria, amoeba… And has been shown to kill every one within 20 seconds.

You can use Colloidal Silver for anything on the outside the body: burns, sores, and flushing out abscesses. It’s a definite item that you need to put in your health kit for your dogs and your family.

I hope you learned from this little discovery I made for treating newborn puppy eye infections, and even better still, I hope it never happens to you!

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