How to Administer Eye Medication to a Dog with Dry Eyes
- 1). Immobilize your dog's head in some way. You can wrap a small dog in a towel, leaving his head exposed, and place him between your knees, or you can ask an assistant to hold your larger dog's head so he can't move.
- 2). Place one hand above your dog's affected eye and gently widen the eyelid so that you can see the entire cornea of the eye.
- 3). Take the medication in your other hand and lay the side of this hand next to your dog's ear directly behind the eye to be medicated. Hold the medication approximately one inch above the eye.
- 4). Drop the medicine onto the cornea of the affected eye, making sure not to touch the eye with the tip of the medicine bottle or tube.
- 5). Administer medication to the other eye using the same hand placements on the other side of your dog's head.
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