Cat has eye boogers all the time

[Wingingit2047]

Can't get a pic because he is so quick and non compliant with photos. Cat has fairly thick crusty eyes at the inner corner all the time. Sometimes green/yellow discharge. He doesn't seem to wash them? If I manage to catch him (he is a rescue, extremely skittish) and I manage to remove them the eye otherwise looks really healthy. I took him to the vet and she said conjunctivitis and gave drops. Now for the life of me I cannot get these eye drops into my cat. It takes me about an hour to catch him (I have no one to help me) then he scratches, deep scratches. He is SO strong its so hard to even keep hold of him let alone enough to get eye drops in. I don't know what to do, at the end of my tether and worried about my cats eyes and his health. Please be kind, I want to do the best for my cat and I wanted to see if anyone has had similar experiences or ideas.

Hiya, when you finly catch him wrap him tightly in a towel. Be patient it really will take practice but it'll be safer for you and it will be more secure for him. Kneel on the floor with him between your legs, tilt his head back, under the chin and pop the drops into his eye, then give him a treat. Good luck x

Buy some of those thick gauntlets used by gardeners when tackling brambles and arm yourself with a towel. You need to grab the cat and wrap it in the towel with only the head sticking out of one end. It will probably take two people to accomplish this.

If you genuinely can't do it, then phone the vets and ask their advice, as they might be able to give an antibiotic injection instead.

My Persians get proper eye snot. I pick it off with my finders as she tolerates that to them being wiped with cotton wool pads. She also likes to wipe it up
My arm. (I'm a nurse. Snot doesn't bother me!)
I sometimes use moisture drops from boots if her eyes a looking a bit sore.
Persians are the really proper cats, though. So I can't imagine a moggy being as amenable.

I read somewhere eye gunk is a sign of worms. Has he been dewormed recently?

MrCat had constant eye-bogies when we got him. They didn't seem to bother him, and the vet did not comment on them. About a year after we got MrCat, he had to have a tooth out and was on oral antibiotics for a week or so afterwards. The eye-bogies cleared up completely. Five months on and they have started to return, but only in one eye.

Could it be some sort of low-grade infection?

One of mine gets eye boogers after an eye injury. There's no infection there but apparently it's quite common.

After his injury we had no choice but to corner him somewhere and just do it.