Anterior uveitis (inflammation of a portion of the eye).Disorders of the optic tract, a bundle of nerve fibers associated with the eye.Disease of the cerebellum, a portion of the brain.Disorders of the oculomotor nerve, a cranial nerve that provides muscle sense and movement of the eye.Disorders of the optic nerve, the primary nerve to the eye.Nervous system abnormalities, as well as infection, inflammation, cancer or trauma involving the eye can also result in anisocoria. Conversely, dogs are more in your face and there is, I regret to say, often a stronger connection between dog and human because of the pack animal behaviour of dogs which obliges the owner to respond when a health problem arises.īelow are some more articles on cat eyes.Anisocoria is an inequality of pupil size, when one pupil is dilated and the other is constricted. There would seem to me to be a slight tendency for cat owners to conveniently ignore their cat’s health problems. Cats end up being taken to the vet much less than dogs. Postscript: you will find that there is a disparity between the number of veterinary visits from dog owners compared to cat owners. The advice on to this girl was to make a lot of noise and be aggressive towards her parents to force them to take her cat to the vet. I am afraid to say that a lot of cat adoption is a little too casual. Therefore, there should be no question about taking your cat to vet when the need arises. It is perhaps the single biggest factor in deciding whether you adopt a domestic cat or not. The decision to spend money on veterinary care should enter your head before you adopt a cat. If you have a domestic cat, you simply have to accept the responsibility that goes with the caregiving of your cat which includes burning through some money sometimes in the interests of your cat’s health. There is competition between expenditure and cat welfare. And when you pay to fix a health problem you resist. The child identifies the problem but doesn’t pay for the cure.
And this is the problem: the parents have to pay for the veterinary treatment. And she said that she may have difficulty in convincing her parents to take the family cat to the vet. She said that she is concerned about the odd-pupil size in her cat but it appears to me that her parents are not as concerned as she is. And this is an interesting topic in this instance because I want to return to the 15-year-old girl who posted the picture on. The basic upshot of my research is that anisocoria is a symptom of a potentially serious health condition. I would have thought that they would be valid because the anatomy of cats and humans is very similar. It’s interesting that the VCA Hospitals webpage does not include the causes in humans. I’ve added in the extra possible causes in humans because I think they add to the page. Traumatic brain injury can also cause anisocoria as can a migraine. This condition affects people as well and in people anisocoria can be caused by people being born with naturally different pupil sizes, the use of eyedrops can cause it and certain medicines or chemicals which get into the eye can cause the problem. They include glaucoma, a disease or injury to the brain or to the nerves that run to the affected eye, an injury to the cornea, inflammation of the interior of the eye, retinal disease, scar tissue formed between the iris and the lens, atrophy of the iris, a congenital defect of the iris, cancer in the affected eye, spastic pupil syndrome or an infectious disease such as feline immunodeficiency virus (FeLV) or toxoplasmosis. Tammy Hunter DVM on the VCA Animal Hospitals website provides a useful list of them. Out of curiosity I wondered how the word is pronounced, so I looked it up on the Internet and thanks to Emma I am able to reproduce the pronunciation of the word on this page below:Īnisocoria is a symptom of an underlying health problem.
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