Hi Bolisnide,

I'm sorry I missed this post. I didn't read many posts at all yesterday.

I would place your baby in a hospital tank. Use only paper towel substrate and change it daily. Continue to change soaking water daily. You may want to boil your soak dish to kill any unseen bacteria or fungus. Mist as usual. Be sure to cover 3 sides of tank to avoid further stress. Feed as usual. Apply the original brand neosporin to all discolored skin areas everyday with a fresh Qtip, before misting. I actually boiled my dechlorinated water in advance, allowed to cool, and then used it for the water bowl and for misting. I also sprayed down the tank and dried it with paper towel before placing new, every night.

The discolorations will slough off as he sheds. Because they aren't deep wounds they will likely fade, shrink in size, and new skin will fill in. I am guessing you will start seeing a difference after about 2 to 3 sheds. It make take some time. Once the outer skin layer heals over he can be placed back in his normal home. Monitoring the color of the skin is important to know if it's healing without infection. Keep us posted. I've healed 6 retf's from poor care and wounds and have seen the healing phases of bacterial and fungus infections.

For his eye, use either 0.45% sterile saline irrigation, or dilute 0.9% sterile saline with boiled dechlor water to a 50/50 ratio. A standard bottle of sterile saline solution is the 0.9% solution. You need it be half of the strength of salt content for him.

You can look for sterile saline eye drops with absolutely no additives, dyes, or chemicals. It has to be strictly only sterile saline. It will likely be either the 0.45% or 0.9% solution. Again, it has to be only 0.45% or less (the 0.45% or more, dilute). Gently irrigate his eye daily. If the eye becomes cloudy, discolored, swollen, starts producing drainage, or he seems to be having difficulty with sight or eye muscle control, than a prescription medication is needed.

On a good note, my retf has scratched herself on her vine somehow in the past and all I did was neosporin daily. It faded and completely healed without even a scar.

It is key to monitor the skin and also their responses and how they act each day. If they eat normal, pee/poop normal, wake/sleep normal and the wound fades with no worsening, you're in good shape.

Keep us posted. Forgive yourself, we are all human .