How to Clean Matted Kitten Eyes

To clean a kitten’s infected eyes, brew one teabag’s worth of tea. Don’t add sugar, of course. Dip a corner of a soft clean cloth into the tea while it’s still lukewarm, and don’t squeeze it out much. Swab one eye, then use a different corner and do the other. Store the tea in anything with a lid and keep it in the fridge. Warm just enough for one use at a time. My kitten eyes were both full of infection, and sealed shut every few hours. I did both eyes last night, and this morning one eye was clear and the other was much better!

OMG!! I just wanted to add here that just yesterday afternoon I went online and googled how to clean my kittens eye that was all watery and gunky. I read the tea bag thing and decided to try it. When I did I noticed the other eye was beginning to look gooey also so I cleaned out making sure some of the tea got IN his eyes. I did it again before we went to bed and this morning it’s like a miracle his eyes are completely better! I also want to mention that tea bags work miracles on diaper rash. I learned this when my niece was in the hospital as a baby and she had a rash the nurses put tea bags on her bottom and it cleared right up. I later tried it when I had my kids and found that it worked better than ANY diaper oint ment out there!

Thank you so much.. I Just got a baby kitten 2 days ago and its eyes were really matted I thought i was going to have to take it to the vet but I used the tea bags yesterday and this morning i could tell a huge difference in the cats eyes. They are still a little matted but it didnt take me 30 minutes of whiping the eyes to get them open like the morning before. It only took a couple of whipe and they were open. Im using the tea agian today, hopefully they keep getting better.

Your local pet store probably sells kitten eye wash around 6-8 dollars. Most of the eye washes have a small amount of boric acid in them this will help with itching and irritation. You can soak cotton balls in the eye wash and use them to clean the gunk from the eye area. You can order the kitten eye antibiotic off the internet or pick it up at at local pet/feed store for a fairly inexpspensive price around 10-15 dollars. I know the Pet Club stores here carry it.

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If there is no improvement or other symptoms, of course, see a vet.

Thank you so much for the Tea Bag tip! I am sitting the neighbors animals and there are 4,3 week old kittens that have their eyes mattered very bad. I did the tea wash in the eyes and will find out in the am how it did. Thanks again!!!

FYI, humans… used tea bags are great for cold sores. place a wet used one on a cold sore for 15 minutes 4 or more times a day and they should disappear in 3days. sore leakage is also minimized, as is pain.

today i saw that i should use tea bags. i thought… i should try that. i got to let you go and ill try that tea bag thing. ihope it works.all the other times we used hot water (which didnt work at all)and the kittens that i did it on died from a diease that there mom had. i was really up set but at least one made it ,and im going to try the tea bag thing on her. hopefully she wont die eather.

what tea should you use?I have green tea will it work?

I just wanted to say thank you so much to everyone for discussing and confirming the tea bag trick! i just got 2 8wk old kittens (brother and sister) from a farm and my lil guy Bear had matted eyes right when we got him home! i was so upset because I instantly fell in love with him when we got them and thought something was seriously wrong!! I saw this forum at work yesterday and went home and tried it… ALL BETTER!! once again, thanks!!! Bear is bright eyed and smiling!!!

-Angel

The feral cat I adopted had five kittens, and the three littlest ones all have crusty eyes. I have been using warm water and lubricating eyedrops, but the smallest ones eyes are not getting much better. I will try the tea bag this evening and keep my fingers crossed!! I am also feeding him with a medicine dropper and kitten milk (he will not take a bottle). They are five weeks old and I cannot get him to eat food yet. Think he is going to be my favorite—he is just so small and sweet!!!

I went to the vet and she said it was an infection so I went home and had 5 with matted eyes. I took one capsule of minocycline 100 MG and mixed with a eighth of can of cat food. Gave them two doses one at night and one the next morning with a plastic knife and gave each like 3 mouthfuls. Cleared them up and they have been that way for a week. Amoxacillion or just about any medicine for infection will do. Just give them a small amount at a time. Vet just wants to charge big money for a simple cure.

Mine was using an antibiotic mixed in a eighth or quarter of a can of feed. I have had cats for 20 years and live on a farm. It clears them up within two days even if their eyes are full of infection. One 100 mg capsule of like amoxicillin will treat 5 cats for two treatments. Just clean their eyes with a warm damp cloth so they can see and give them a antibiotic. The vet says it a respiratory infection that does that to their eyes. Let me know how they do after you treat them and it will clear their eyes up. Good luck . If you don’t have any antibiotic ask a friend or a neighbor.One pill goes along way. If not the vet will sell you some. Good luck with the Kittens.

thanks 4 the tea bag suggestion! i JUST did it to my two 8 week old kittens! i hope it works!!! thanks again!

Will try this. Have been trying to rescue cats and save them from the pound and ended up with a litter and their eyes keep getting crusty. Been cleaning them twice daily and will try the tea bags, thank you for the advice! And thanks for caring about our furry little friends…

Just use a little infection medicine like ammoxacillian and give it two small doses of it like a a tenth of a pill . Their eyes have a respiratory infection in them. It will clear them right up.

We live in the country and our home is on a hill in the woods, and we just found a kitten. She’s about 6 or 7 weeks old and healthy except for the fact that her eyes are closed shut. We are going to try the tea bag trick now. We used a warm wash cloth and most of the gunk is out but its coming back. Thanks for the tip. I’ll let you all know if it works tomorrow =) So glad I searched about this!

i was at my great-grandpa’s house and there was this cat always hanging around. she was kinda mean so i named her rosalie since she ignored me(you know, from twilight) and then like a month or two later of her coming around we were doing some work in his garage and me and my dad heard meowing. i saw rosalie, but then i saw little tiny heads poking out of the garage behind her. she had babies in my grandfathers garage! so it was so hard to get them all out because they have matted eyes and they were hiding. i’m taking them all to an animal shelter because i already have 2 cats and they’re boys. so they would end up having a domination match. but luckily the animal shelter doesnt put their animals down in case they don’t get adopted. anyways, thank you for the tea bag trick i will use it on them and that way people will want to adopt them in a heartbeat! thanks!

the tea bags REALLY WORK i tryed it with ma to kitten n it really worked today wen i woke up they eyes was wide n dey could see clearly

I have 4 new kittens that are 4 weeks old and a couple of them have matted eyes. I clean them with water and that helps but I’m going to try the tea thing before I call a Vet. Thanks

I tried the tea on my 2 ten week old kittens and it is working. thank you.

Just tried it on a 5 +/- week old kitten who has had matted eyes for about 2 or 3 weeks now and finnaly got them cleaned up, got them open and she can apparently still see. So id say the tea bag method works. Gonna clean her eyes later tonight before i go to sleep if i can find her. So yea. Thanks for the method.

My mom and i just found two kittens and one of them had a matted eye. We tried wiping it out with a warm wrag, and it worked, but in a few hours it was closed again. I just read about usung tea bags, and we are going to go and buy some, and try it tommorow. I hope it works , because we dont have the money to go to thje vet. Thanks for the advice!

After a little Google searching, I’ve found reference to both Green & White tea as having both anitbacterial & anti-inflamatory properties. If you don’t have either type of tea, try getting a tea bag from a neighbor or friend. Both types of teas are wildly popular these days, someone is sure to have some on hand.

My kittens had matted eyes both eyes. I used the tea theory I learned here and i want to say thank you. It cleared their eyes. Just for FYi, if you treat them once a month it’s also a preventative.