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You can cure PopEye in a few seconds and I wrote about it in my book. I have performed the treatment dozens of times and never lost or blinded a patient.
But before I tell you the procedure I need to say it usually abates on it's own as it is not a disease. It is a condition and comes about because fish have a flaw in their design. I didn't design them but it's true.
If you look at a dead fish skull (if you live near the sea, you can see these all the time as seagulls carry them up and drop them) The eye socket for the eye just has a tiny hole for the optic nerve.
Sometimes either bacteria or gas gets back there behind there and due to the structure which is closed, there is no place for that gas to exit.
Now I know you are not going to do this but it is simple, and I wouldn't do it unless the eye was really in danger of coming all the way out. When the eye does that, the optic nerve is stretched and can be damaged beyond repair. When that happens the eye dies but the fish can live just fine with one eye as most of their "sight" is from their lateral line.
To get the eye back instantly catch the fish in a course net. Take a small hypodermic and gently insert it above the eye in the stretched tissue which will be taught and hard. Don't push it all the way as it will go into the brain and fish frown on that.
Pull back on the plunger and the eye will immediately return to where it is supposed to be.
If gas comes out, no further treatment is usually needed. If liquid comes out, it is probably an infection and I inject a small amount of antibiotic that I get from a Vet. Then pull back the plunger to remove the antibiotic and the eye will return to it's normal place but some antibiotic will remain.
As I said, I know you won't do this but if your eye was hanging out of your head so you could see what is on top of your head and people were calling you Cyclops. And I said I could cure you in 3 seconds, would you say. "Oh NO" I like this look and think it will help me meet girls?
But before I tell you the procedure I need to say it usually abates on it's own as it is not a disease. It is a condition and comes about because fish have a flaw in their design. I didn't design them but it's true.
If you look at a dead fish skull (if you live near the sea, you can see these all the time as seagulls carry them up and drop them) The eye socket for the eye just has a tiny hole for the optic nerve.
Sometimes either bacteria or gas gets back there behind there and due to the structure which is closed, there is no place for that gas to exit.
Now I know you are not going to do this but it is simple, and I wouldn't do it unless the eye was really in danger of coming all the way out. When the eye does that, the optic nerve is stretched and can be damaged beyond repair. When that happens the eye dies but the fish can live just fine with one eye as most of their "sight" is from their lateral line.
To get the eye back instantly catch the fish in a course net. Take a small hypodermic and gently insert it above the eye in the stretched tissue which will be taught and hard. Don't push it all the way as it will go into the brain and fish frown on that.
Pull back on the plunger and the eye will immediately return to where it is supposed to be.
If gas comes out, no further treatment is usually needed. If liquid comes out, it is probably an infection and I inject a small amount of antibiotic that I get from a Vet. Then pull back the plunger to remove the antibiotic and the eye will return to it's normal place but some antibiotic will remain.
As I said, I know you won't do this but if your eye was hanging out of your head so you could see what is on top of your head and people were calling you Cyclops. And I said I could cure you in 3 seconds, would you say. "Oh NO" I like this look and think it will help me meet girls?
