Sabine Volopich has kindly let me use this great image of a strange corneal lesion in a tortoise. Have you seen anything like this? What could be going on?
White or yellow corneal lesions could be lipid, or cellular infiltrate or scarring but this is a reptile so its going to be a bit different isn’t it?! It seems as though these deposits, seen after hibernation, are proteinaceous in nature. Some slough naturally while others, like this one, require application of a proteolytic ointment like Kymar, which contains alphachymotrypsin. In fact Kymar doesn’t seem to be available these days, so Sabine used alphachymotrypsin from Sigma at about 1mg/ml. Thanks for that Sabine!