Cats Eyes Dilated After Anesthesia
Both pupils should be equal in size and when looked at with a bright light they should both constrict quickly.
Cats eyes dilated after anesthesia. Your pet just had general anesthesia and received morphine-type drugs for pain control. Hypothermia is a common complication during and after anesthesia. When you arrive home with your cat after a surgery or procedure that required anesthesia your cat may be groggy.
She has her eyes shut but not because of discharge she just does not feel good with light in her eyes. Diseases can be found within the iris tissue and scar tissue can build up in the eye resulting in anisocoria. Some cats experience a phenomenon known as rebound hyperthermia after anesthesia in which their temperature may rise as high as 411422C 106108F.
This may worry the cats owner because anesthetics can harm or rarely even kill a cat. Feline dilated pupil syndrome or Key-Gaskell syndrome. The normal healthy cat was groggy and sickly acting.
The basic cause of eye squinting in cats is inflammation. Photography by Cait Rohan Kelly. 3232013 A cat might have dilated eyes after a general anesthetic.
If you notice your cat hyperactive after anesthesia she should be carefully monitored and confined to a safe space to prevent her from hurting herself. Key-Gaskell tends to affect cats younger than three years old and has no known cause. As the anesthesia wears off your cat will probably be groggy and tired.
Injuries and infections can make your cat squint one eye or keep it half closed. It can result in signs such as watery eyes discharge redness rubbing blinking excessively and a showing third eyelid. I believe it was around 3 pm yesterday i left her at the office around 3pm and i picked her up around 5 pm she did drink a lot and she ate a little no discharges just a little redness around her eyes they wanted to take dna samples to test for herpes virus because she had sneezing and some mucus and a respiratory infection las year in octber.