I need medicine info quick

[Becki]

Nicky's eye is still red and goobered up (lol, is there a better word than goober?), so he's going to the vet. The thing is, the chinchilla vet isn't there, so I'm wondering if anyone knows the names of meds I should ask for... the one for a regular infection that has a steroid in it, and the one without the steroid incase he has a scratch on his eye. If you know either or both, please let me know, I have to leave in about 45 minutes. Thanks!

[Christi]

All I was ever given when my guys had eye probs were the eyedrops.. OH! and Roll and Tuck were on Sulfatrim.

[Becki]

We're back. I wound up with Tobramycin drops for Nicky, I haven't heard of it before, but all the other meds I found for eye infections were --mycin, so I think were good. I forget what the vet said the problem was, but it meant that his eyelids are irritated (ulcerated maybe?), so his little eye is ok!

[Becki]

I just remembered, the word was conjunctivitis....that scared me, sounds pretty serious, but if the vet is to be believed, that just means and eyelid irritation that is infected.

[Nancy]

conjunctivitis is what causes "pink eye" in humans. I know it's highly contagious in humans, so I'd think the same would go for chinchillas(could be wrong tho!). So I'd be careful