I found a kitten behind my work place. This morning his eye is goopy.?

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Rescues need to be taken to a vet as soon as possible. Street kittens tend to have a wide variety of illnesses which can kill them or even transfer to humans. Good luck with the kitten and thanks for saving it :)

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Take him to the vet. It's probably infected and needs attention. Left untreated he could lose his eye.

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My kitten's one eye waters constantly and it forms a scab on her face. It looks like goop but it's actually just water. My vet gave me stuff that looks like Vasoline to put on her eyes to stop them from watering. I was told that kittens often have this problem, especially ones that have white fur around their eyes.

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Thanks for rescuing him -- are there any others out there? If so, Alley Cat Allies
http://www.alleycat.org
may have some folks in your area who can humanely rescue them-- spay and neuter and medicate them. Good idea to look around to see if any more cats out there.

As for your kitten, please take him to the vet. He needs vet care.

Hope you and kitty have a loong loong happy life together.

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First, of I have so much respect for you for bringing the kitten home some people would have just left it there to fend for itself. I recomend that you take the kitten to vet just to have him checked out and make sure everything is ok. I have went through this in the past and my vet told me untill I could bring the kitten in to gently and slowly rub that kittens eyes with a luke warm was cloth to see if I could remove some of the goop. I hope this helps and I hope everything works out for you too.

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It is true that he needs to see a vet and get proper medication, but there are some things you can do. You can clean his eye out by gently swabbing over it with a cotton ball dipped in a boric acid ophthalmic solution or even just a sterile isotonic saline solution, either of which is available over the counter at the drug store. If you can't get him to the vet for a couple of days, you can also buy a tube of yellow oxide of mercury ophthalmic salve. The pharmacist can help you locate it.

When you put ointment or drops in your kitty's eyes, you caress him very gently and be very tender, so he will let you pull his LOWER eyelid down just a bit in a way that it peeks open a little. Then you gently squeeze a drop or just a wee dollop at the little opening, and then kind-of close the eye, pulling the upper and lower lids together and without applyng pressure, gently use the eyelids to smear the medicine into and over the entire eye.

Never put any preparation into the eye that does not say it is "ophthalmic".

Is your kitty sneezing as well? There is an upper respiratory infection common in stray kittens and cats that is viral and always includes an eye infection. It is curable, but takes it's time going away, so don't worry if you don't have instant gratification.

Is the lining around the kitty's eye (the conjunctiva) bright pinkish red and swollen? If so, this is a viral infection and is the one that another person who answered your plea for help said could cost your kitty his eye.

If your kitty just has goop around his eye, without the red, swollen conjunctiva and without sneezing, some TLC may be all he needs to shed the infection. But you do need to get him to the vet and have him tested for feline AIDS (not transmissable to humans) and leukemia, and for an assessment of his general health.

Just clean out those eyes. He will be all right.

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the kitten needs vet treatment to save its eye going worse,it could lose an eye.if you can afford treatment ask a cat shelter will they treat it for you if you keep it.mean time bathe each eye with a cotton wool pad soaked in cooled boiled water(different pad for each eye to save spreading infection).could be enteritis so get it checked

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Take him to the vet. Glad you found him.