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How do you clean around the eyes?

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#1 ·
I started helping out at a rescue and one of the new ponies has some bad crusty eye discharge in the corner of his eyes. I tried just cleaning it with a sponge but it is really on there. Any ideas of removing this would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Have you tried a softening agent, such as mineral or baby oil?

If it's crusted on, trying to scrape it off will be very painful for the animal.

Mineral/baby oil will loosen it enough that a warm, wet cloth should get most of it off.
 
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i have always found that human eye wash or optrex is great is washed out with it or even put on a cotton wool piece and squeezed over the eye, eye ointments for humans are very good as well, i had a loan horse a while back that got an eye infection from a fly bite and this cleared it up in about 2 days. and made him happier too
 
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