Cyst or Sty on Dog's Eye?

[JentonLee]

Hi, so I have a 9 year old Black Lab who has had a cyst or a sty growing on his upper eyelid. It's grown slightly in the past year, and there was one night when my mother said she saw that the sty was bleeding slightly. We can't take him to the vet until the middle of June, but does anyone know if this is something that would require immediate medical attention?

Thanks!

-Jenton

[pitty2bulls]

Hello everyone, I want to thank you all for taking the time to write in your experiences with your dogs. I own 2 dogs both of which are rescues and they are my best friends. My male pit bull (Stash) who is currenty 10 years old has a stye growing on his eye. I am going to make an appointment tomorrow for him again because the first time I took him into the vet they told me that the stye was pretty small and if it got any larger and started to rub on the cornea then we would have to remove it, since then (6mos ago) it has slowly gotten bigger and I noticed today that it is no longer pink but has changed to a dark brown color. Anyway, thanks for all of your comments and I agree with not berating people who own dogs and cant always afford to rush them to the vets, I do my best by them and their needs certainly come way before mine but as they get older the health care costs go up and you just never know how much something is going to cost until you get intot he vet. I have paid thousands of dollars over the years for medical procedures that they have needed (no exaggeration) and I would do it all over again..but, berating people doesnt help get the point across. Blessed be...

[Ghilly]

Hello tazz1, and welcome to the MedHelp Dogs Community.

A couple of things here.  First of all, the post you are responding to is four years old, and chances are very good that the person who posted the original question has not been here in almost that long.  

Secondly, we try here to help people, not berate them.  Not everyone who posts here realizes the potential urgency of the situations they are asking about, so rather than berating them or belittling them, it is better to try to explain the situation and to educate them.  If you educate them, they will then see the urgency on their own, but if you belittle them, it will create an atmosphere of hostility and those words will fall on deaf ears.  As frustrating as some situations can be to read about, please remember to always be as polite as you can and try to help the person see why their current course of action might not be the best.  

Thanks, and we look forward to your participation in our community!

Ghilly

[tazz1]

If your 8 year old child had a cyst on her upper eyelid or any part of the eye would you just try and avoid it and hope it does not hurt or gets better?  We are talking about animals here!  They cannot communicate with you how their growths around or on their eyes are feeling.  If an animal has any growth on or around their eye they should see a vet asap!  If you do not have money to pay for any procedure to help your animal with his medical problems or cannot get someone to help you in taking care of the health of your animal then maybe you should not take the responsibility of owning an animal.  It is not fair to the animal if you cannot afford to treat them and help them for some of their medical conditions and this happens to be one of them.   I don't mean to upset anyone but my dog had several growths around both eyes and when I found out I immediately had them removed and my dog is 15 years old.  Sometime these growths that occur around the animal's eyes causes them not to even be able to shut their eyes properly.

[Beauford]

Hi my 6 month old lab/rottie I think has a sty in his lower right eyelid. I was looking at him yesterday and noticed a small cucumber seed size lump. I thought maybe he hit it cause hes clumsy. Can anyone help me find out whether its a sty or not? I've never seen one. I have a picture. Im concerned because I caught him itching and it seems bigger as well as broken open and bleeding. Please help thanks.

[ginger899]

I nearly missed your question, it was tucked away here at the end of an old post...Anyway, it sounds like he will have to have that one taken off too. Was the whole thing reoved last time? Or was it a cyst that was drained, but the cyst's "capsule" left behind? If that was the case, they can fill up again.
The majority of tumors on dogs' eyelids are benign, but they do need to be removed if at all possibe as they cause great irritation to the eye.
(I know a dog right now, a neighbour's dog, who has one of these, and his owners have opted to leave it alone. It pains me to see his poor eye, red and inflamed, weeping with greenish pus....
I bathe it for him with lukewarm salt water, or echinacea and water if I get the chance. But I know he really needs it removed.)

[alaurenkeller]

My Beagle is 7 now but had one removed from his eyelid about 2 years ago. It cost around $200; however, it has since returned in the past 6 months so I do not know what to do about it now.