Serbella (St. Louis, Missouri ) on 04/16/2009:
Yesterday 4/15) I noticed my kitten, Maya, was not running around the house playing like she usually does. Her left eye was nearly shut, with a slight brown discharge and she seemed miserable. I went on the site, and I saw the posts about eye ailments. I brewed one tea bag of Green Tea in a clean glass jar about the size of a small jelly jar, cooled it, and then applied it to Maya's eye. She started fussing after three minutes or so, so I didn't force her to sit any longer than that. I kept the tea in the jar, put a lid on it, and later on I soaked cotton balls in the tea and applied it to her eye again, 3 times that day in all. I kept an eye on her; she still ate and drank. She slept a lot. She and her siblings rough house a lot; I don't know if someone poked her in the eye or not.
Today she's bouncing through the house beating everyone up. I plan on continuing the green tea for the next 2 days, as a precaution. She has an appointment to see the vet later on this month.
I have no problem taking any of my animals to the vet, but at that time I had no money. Payday was two days off. Sorry to all those folks who try to guilt the rest of us about this, but let's be honest, vets don't work for free, at least they don't in my area.
Mary Ann (Rural, South Africa) on 11/03/2008:
Green Tea-for eye infections
Thank you all for your input on this site. We live on a farm and one of our dogs came home after being out in the bush. Her eyes were swollen shut and full of mucas. We suspect she had come across one of the many types of cobra that we have here and this had spat in her eyes. In a panic I searched your site and found the Green Tea remedy. Too far from a Vet I rinsed her eyes twice a day for 3days. After the first day her eyes started to clear. One is now slightly opaque, but I believe had it not been for this remedy it would have been a tradgedy. Thank you once again.
Maria (Milton, Florida) on 06/23/2008:
Who would have thought that in a million years, a tea bag would help cure the lump on my 6 day old kittens eyes. We think that the 2 kittens had Conjunctivitis. Like everyone else we didn't have any money for the vet and so we decided to try searching the internet. We found the wonderful Earth Clinic and tried making some tea. We cooled the bags off and squeezed them onto the kittens eyes that have the lumps in them. I woke up this morning and the lump is 90% gone. It's definitely amazing!!! Their eyes are not yet opened because they are a few days too young, but hopefully the tea will continue to help them.
SuzieQ (USA, USA) on 04/09/2008:
HOLY MOLY, TEA WORKED!!! My cat had started to show symptoms of conjunctivitis; redness of the eye, swelling of eyelids, inner eyelid almost 'sticking' in place accompanied with tearing/goop near his eye ducts. Unfortunately some of us cannot afford to pay vet visits--I was putzing around the internet and came across EARTHCLINIC.com -saw the natural remedy of using tea (green, black or chamomile) to rid 'pink eye' and decided what the heck, let's try it. Within a couple hours the swelling had gone down and redness seemed to diminish. After 2-3 days of administering tea soaked cotton balls (a separate one for each eye) his ailment ceased. Earth Clinic rocks and more people should check out natural remedies. TRY IT I SWEAR IT WORKS!! THANK YOU TOO!!!
Pamela (Richmond, VA) on 07/31/2007:
I have a Yorkshire Terrier that had gotten pink eye..I went to this site and tried the black tea remedy,,and sure enough it was gone in a couple of days.. Thanks earth clinic.. Keep the natural remedies coming.Saved alot of money not going to the vet.
Jody (OH) on 12/22/2006:
Eye infection.. I just purchased a dog, upon his arrival I noticed some buildup around his eyes. I immediately used lukewarm water and soaked two tea bags, one for each eye. I wrapped him in a towel so he couldn't squirm around and placed a slightly dripping tea bag on each eye for a moment. It must have felt good as he didn't move. I did this a couple times a day for the weekend. I always recommend a vet for eye problems, but this will work in a jiffy until you can get to the vet.
Another solution, you can boil 1 qt of water for a 10 mins to sterilize and mix in a tbsp of boric acid, not borax.. After the water cools, you can use it to wash out the eyes carefully. You can do this two or three times a day.. If the infection is in both eyes, use two separate cloths or cotton balls, one for each eye.
