Cats Eyes Watering And Squinting

Causes of Cat Eye Watering and Squinting.

Cats eyes watering and squinting. If your cat has watery eyes and is blinking excessively squinting or pawing at their eyes a visit to your vet is required. Your cat could have a foreign body trapped and irritating the eye or a blocked nasolacrimal duct tear duct. Squinting in one eye is commonly caused by trauma.

Watery tearing eyes epiphora. Blocked tear ducts an overproduction of tears allergies viral conjunctivitis and more can be behind your cats abnormal tearing. Squinting painful eyes and cloudy eyes are some of the common symptoms.

Eye pain may make the animal very sensitive to light and the cat may try to avoid bright light. Squinting may occur from both external and internal irritation of the eye. In the condition called blepharitis it is the eyelid that is swollen giving the appearance that the cat is squinting one eye.

However in almost all cases the reason that your cat is squinting is that his eye is very sore. Some cats get sicker than others and young healthy adult cats seem to tolerate them and fight them off better than very young kittens or older cats. The pain from the injury will cause the cat to close its eyes or squint.

If your cat has watery eyes and is blinking excessively squinting or pawing at their eyes a visit to your vet is required. An ulcer on the surface of the eye a corneal ulcer will cause watery eyes alongside pain excessive blinking redness and sometimes cloudiness. Other symptoms of watery cat eyes that need vet attention include squinting or blinking pawing or rubbing at the eye red or inflamed eye tissue a cloudy-looking eye.

Sometimes watery eyes are the only symptom. Sometimes however squinting is a symptom of an underlying problem with the eyes. Ok it is possible he did get an irritant in the eye a possible corneal scratch or having an episode of Feline Herpes where they get a watery eye and slight conjunctivitis You can rinse eye with a sterile Eye wash or plain saline solution.