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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 861788" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>SL,</p><p>In your initial post, you wrote, "The best you can hope for, if you administer a medication in any fashion, is for it to travel through the blood stream and get to the cornea by way of the tears ducts."</p><p>And, you were exactly right! That's exactly what LA-200 and the other long-acting tetracycline products do - if you give them as directed on the label instructions, at the appropriate dosage! They're secreted in the tears, constantly bathing the eyes with a therapeutic level of the drug for the 3-4 day duration of that treatment.</p><p>No need for squirting anything in the eye, no need for those subconjunctival injections we used to do(I don't think they worked - they were mostly voodoo, too.) Eye patch/flap, or sewing the lids together still can be helpful in managing severe cases.</p><p></p><p>I haven't been a 'pill-pusher' as you describe it, for over 20 years, since I left large animal veterinary practice to become a veterinary pathologist. I'm not 65, but you're not far ahead of me, and I, too, have spent most of my life working with cattle.</p><p>I don't sell a thing, don't charge for my services - I am paid by the taxpayers of my state for my knowledge and ability to help food animal producers and their veterinarians. It's how I finance my 'farming habit'. lol </p><p> </p><p>I know about bacteria, viruses, parasites - how they are transmitted, how they cause disease. I know how vaccines work, I know how antimicrobial agents kill or interrupt the life cycle of bacteria, etc. I know how the animals' body systems work - including the immune system and reproductive system. I know about wound/tissue healing. I know about various cancers and nutritional deficiencies/imbalances. </p><p></p><p>I know that folks have thrown all manner of stuff - salt, nitrofurazone powder, mastitis treatment, etc. - in cows' eyes for as long as we've had cows and pinkeye in them. Some of them have healed up in spite of it - some of them didn't . </p><p>Yeah, I suspect that my grandfather(not my grandmother) probably threw some salt in a pinkeye cow's eye at some point. Born in 1887, most of his lifetime was spent before antibiotics became readily available for livestock; they didn't have much at their disposal beyond salt, turpentine, coal tar, boric acid (grandma would have used the boric acid solution). Why would you want to ignore the advances of modern science and medicine to go back to voodoo BS? Come on into the 20th Century - or even into the 21st, if you're brave enough...</p><p></p><p>The only interest I have is in seeing that people treat their animals in the best way possible to enhance the chances of a good outcome - both for the animal and for the producer. I'll call BS when I see it.</p><p>Like I said, your use of H2O2 is probably not harmful, but also not likely to be responsible for any improvement or 'cure' that you're laying claim to - that miracle belongs to the animal and their ability to heal - with our help, or in spite of our help. </p><p>Mashing around on an eye with a corneal ulcer? Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.</p><p></p><p>Again - anything you 'squirt' in a cow's eye will be flushed out by normal tear action in less than 15 minutes - even faster in one that's tearing more heavily than usual, due to pinkeye or other malady. </p><p>Good rule of thumb - don't put anything in an animal's eye that you wouldn't want put in YOUR OWN.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 861788, member: 12607"] SL, In your initial post, you wrote, "The best you can hope for, if you administer a medication in any fashion, is for it to travel through the blood stream and get to the cornea by way of the tears ducts." And, you were exactly right! That's exactly what LA-200 and the other long-acting tetracycline products do - if you give them as directed on the label instructions, at the appropriate dosage! They're secreted in the tears, constantly bathing the eyes with a therapeutic level of the drug for the 3-4 day duration of that treatment. No need for squirting anything in the eye, no need for those subconjunctival injections we used to do(I don't think they worked - they were mostly voodoo, too.) Eye patch/flap, or sewing the lids together still can be helpful in managing severe cases. I haven't been a 'pill-pusher' as you describe it, for over 20 years, since I left large animal veterinary practice to become a veterinary pathologist. I'm not 65, but you're not far ahead of me, and I, too, have spent most of my life working with cattle. I don't sell a thing, don't charge for my services - I am paid by the taxpayers of my state for my knowledge and ability to help food animal producers and their veterinarians. It's how I finance my 'farming habit'. lol I know about bacteria, viruses, parasites - how they are transmitted, how they cause disease. I know how vaccines work, I know how antimicrobial agents kill or interrupt the life cycle of bacteria, etc. I know how the animals' body systems work - including the immune system and reproductive system. I know about wound/tissue healing. I know about various cancers and nutritional deficiencies/imbalances. I know that folks have thrown all manner of stuff - salt, nitrofurazone powder, mastitis treatment, etc. - in cows' eyes for as long as we've had cows and pinkeye in them. Some of them have healed up in spite of it - some of them didn't . Yeah, I suspect that my grandfather(not my grandmother) probably threw some salt in a pinkeye cow's eye at some point. Born in 1887, most of his lifetime was spent before antibiotics became readily available for livestock; they didn't have much at their disposal beyond salt, turpentine, coal tar, boric acid (grandma would have used the boric acid solution). Why would you want to ignore the advances of modern science and medicine to go back to voodoo BS? Come on into the 20th Century - or even into the 21st, if you're brave enough... The only interest I have is in seeing that people treat their animals in the best way possible to enhance the chances of a good outcome - both for the animal and for the producer. I'll call BS when I see it. Like I said, your use of H2O2 is probably not harmful, but also not likely to be responsible for any improvement or 'cure' that you're laying claim to - that miracle belongs to the animal and their ability to heal - with our help, or in spite of our help. Mashing around on an eye with a corneal ulcer? Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. Again - anything you 'squirt' in a cow's eye will be flushed out by normal tear action in less than 15 minutes - even faster in one that's tearing more heavily than usual, due to pinkeye or other malady. Good rule of thumb - don't put anything in an animal's eye that you wouldn't want put in YOUR OWN. [/QUOTE]
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