How to fix cherry eye in a 10 year 9th Salbe Burmese female. This isn’t that something is out of place and needs to be pushed back down. Rather what we are seeing is the cats inner eyelid has folded over on itself and just needs to be unfolded and it goes back to normal. To accomplish this all that’s needed is gentle pressure applied to the outer lid in an upward and outward direction. Using this method, at no time is the eye or the inner lid touched and takes only a few seconds.