A watering eye

My kitten has a watering eye for 5 days now. The liquid is clear, more like tear, but the area around the eye is slightly pink. Another problem is that I can’t take him to a vet - the closest clinic is 200 km away and the kitten is still very skittish so travelling is pretty much impossible. I’ve been wondering if there is some medicine safe to use – eye drops, antibacterial solution, etc. That is in case he has something in the eye. It’s his right eye that concerns me. You can see on the photo that it’s pinkish with wet fur around it. The shot is far from good but I had to lure the kitten with a treat to make a close photo. As I said, he is hard to handle, so hard in fact that I can’t imagine any trip with him.    

Hello - you are right, but its not down to any lack in your photography!  Eyes are a 3D object that should be viewed from different angles and the vet should also consider the tear production, the nerve function, any transparent scrapes to the surface of the eye (grooves in the corneal surface), the eye pressure, and any contact between the lashes and the globe - before getting their little light out to assess pupilary responses, for example.   Thus it is impossible to assess a kitten's eye from a photo.  One advantage of living on a small island is having a poor concept of the dilemma that you are describing;  what do people in your part of the world usually do for emergency veterinary care?  I wonder whether video-aided online consulting is available for you? - although even this would be very limited. Things to consider with a unilateral (one sided) eye discharge may include a foreign body, entropion, dry eye, infectious diseases, extremes of pressure, polyp, tooth problem or lump (either to the eye or effecting the nerve or lacrymal duct).  In general, eyes are treated as emergencies until proven otherwise, because of their tendency to deteriorate quickly and irrecoverably.  Im unsure what to suggest given the situation you describe, except that animals really do need to be able to access vet-care in an emergency.  Im sorry to be unhelpful but so many different ocular problems present exactly like this and examination is needed to tell them apart.  We hope that you manage to get that eye examined, one way or another, soon.