Blindness in Turtles


Most The diseases that these animals can suffer, are caused by environmental deficiencies, which can arise from the water, either because their temperature is not correct or simply because it is in poor condition, and also due to food or nutritional deficiencies , when there is a lack of some vitamins, calcium, among others. One of the most common diseases of turtles is blindness, the younger turtles being more likely to suffer from it.

The blindness, consists of an occlusion in the eyes or closure of the same, caused by some type of inflammation and also by a hardening of one of your eyelids. It can also be caused by some type of degeneration in its eyes, which makes it impossible for the animal to open them. In this way, blindness at first would not really have to affect the eyes. In many cases, despite the blindness, the eyes would remain completely healthy, since they would be locked under one of their eyelids, which is why it would be impossible for them to see. But if the tortoise were to go blind, it would not be able to feed, it would not be able to find food, and it could die from starvation.

Among the latests Moravia's compositions causes of blindness several factors are found. First of all, one of the things that could greatly affect the animal is tap or tap water. As we all know, the water that comes out of the tap has large amounts of chlorine, a very harmful substance for these little animals. It is for this reason, that we recommend to all of you who have turtles at home, or who plan to have one, that instead of using tap water, use unchlorinated water or treat the tap water with some type of antichloro.

However, this is not the only cause of blindness in turtles, since their eyes can also be affected with this disease if they lack enough vitamin A in their body, if they suffer from some type of fungal infection, or simply if fungi begin to appear in their habitat that affect and inflame their eyes.


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