Help fresh injury! Missing eye!

[tameyourself]

OMG I'm so sorry! I have treated eye injuries before in reptiles with terramycin but never an amphibian. Hopefully somebody with more ideas will chime in soon.

[Psychotic]

I just checked on him. He is under my Devil's Ivy sleeping. There is still no blood to be seen. He is still brightly colored and the missing eye is no longer as gooy looking. I'm going to leave him alone until he wakes up himself. Then I'll move him to a hospital tank so that he doesn't get anything in the wound to cause infection.

Hopefully he will live. There isn't really any reason he shouldn't be able to thrive with just one eye. As long as it doesn't get infected and he doesn't go off food because of the pain/stress. But I still feel like a terrible monster for doing that to him. I normally look around the door before opening and closing them. I should have double checked and now my little frog is maimed because of me.

Edit to add: This isn't the first time caring for a sick or injured frog. However this is the first time I have been the cause of an injury.

[Gnag the nameless]

First off, I would get him to an Exotic Vet. I don't know how to treat something like this, but if anyone could help you, it'd be a Vet. I really don't think this is something that should go without any kind of treatment. If there are no vets in the area, contact Dr. Frye. You can ask one of the moderators such as Heather or Lynn how to contact him.

I'm so sorry that this happened, but keep in mind it wasn't your fault. You didn't know he was there, and everything you do and have done for him has always been in his best interest. Don't beat yourself up over it, your little guy needs you more than ever before and blaming yourself will help neither you nor your little guy.

I would recommend picking up some Neosporin WITHOUT painkiller if you don't already have it. You could possibly use it to prevent infection.

Keep us posted.

[Psychotic]

I have Dr. Frye's email. I already purchased all kinds of meds from him a little while back because I took my boyfriend's sick albino bullfrog in (she is mine now and doing very well).

I will call my vet and see if they have any advice. They do not have an exotics vet. But when I asked them if they could treat my reptiles or amphibians they told me that they could treat simple things (like RI, scale rot, mites). For things they don't know how to treat, they could contact other vets with more knowledge.

If they don't know anything I'll contact Dr. Frye again for advice.

[Psychotic]

He just woke up! He's calling like nothing happened. What the heck? I'm happy but still worried. I would think he'd be in to much pain and traumatized to be calling for a mate only a few hours after loosing his eye!

[Lija]

or poor guy, so sorry for your baby ((( you know all kind of things can happen all the time, i can imagine how sad you feel right now.
vet won't help here much unfortunately, but it will never hurt to come in. you need to make sure infection is not spreading. so that is what you need to do:
1. set up hospital set up ASAP!, separate enclosure, 4 walls covered, wet pepertowels on a bottom. assuming we're talking about a tree frog, you better cover all walls from outside of the enclosure. use UVB for a day time. use something for him to hide or climb so it won't feel too miserable. that something should be very clean.
2. get melafix (fish stuff) and soak a frog in chin high solution for 20 min 2-3 time a day ( of course depending if you can do so) but am and pm would do and soak paper towels that are on a bottom of a tank with that solution too. use it for a spray bottle as well, while soaking make sure the solution is getting all over a frog, but don't drown it dilute melafix according to the instructions on a bottle to get a solution you are gonna use.

watch him, how he is feeling, is active, how wound looks like, better or worse?
if it seems that it is getting worse then you have to go to a vet ( or contact dr. Frye) for systemic antibiotics and special eye antibiotic drops.

even if everything will heal well the question is if he would be able to eat, frogs use their eyeballs to swallow food, so I'd do small food items for now and see how it'll go, animals are able to adapt to all kinds of situations, dogs are perfectly capable to run and have a normal life with just 2 legs present, chances are your frog is gonna be ok.

[Psychotic]

I have a hospital tank waiting for him. Was just waiting to see if he would wake up and come out on his own. I didn't want to go digging for him (I knew where he was hiding) and freak him, possibly causing more damage.

Yes he is a tree frog. One of my little Leptopelis Uluguruensis. From my avatar you can see how buggy their eyes are and probably can figure out how it was so easy to get in the way of the door.

I'll pick up some melafix for him.

My males are only around an inch long. I already feed them pin head crickets and newborn roaches. They eat several in one sitting. But don't seem to like bigger prey anyway. So tiny food won't be a problem.

They were just fed yesterday so he will have some time to heal before he is fed again. He is currently calling as I type. So that gives me hope.

[Lija]

lol men.... sorry i meant frog males lol well... if he is calling for a girls then probably he doesn't mind much being with one eye

[UncleChester]

So sorry that this happen to you and your little frog. Despite our best intentions and no matter how careful we are, accidents will happen so try not to be too hard on yourself.

I've no advice to give on the healing, but I will tell you that I've seen a few frogs in the wild that appeared blind in one eye and a couple with missing eyes. Yours has the advantage of a loving owner to give it medical care and a predator free environment. As you've also discovered, he is also willing to carry on his usual daily activities and not huddle in a corner sulking or carrying a grudge, so I'd say the outlook is hopeful. Best of luck!