As long as the baby has a lot of eye, adults will say that it is on fire.
In fact, if the occasional increase in eye feces increases, it may be because of foreign body entry, chemical and physical stimulation (such as perfumes, cosmetics, hot and cold drying, etc.), allergic reactions, eating foods with irritating taste, etc., etc. The environment caused by the disappearance of the environment, the baby's eye feces will gradually disappear, without special intervention.
However, if the baby's eye droppings suddenly increase significantly and repeat for a long time, the most common in infancy is caused by three types of diseases, namely: conjunctivitis, nasolacrimal duct obstruction and trichiasis.
conjunctivitis
If you suffer from conjunctivitis, both babies and adults will have symptoms of flooding of eye droppings, accompanied by the phenomenon of redness of the whites of the eyes.
In this case, it is recommended to consult a pediatric ophthalmologist first, and then treat it according to the doctor's guidance, and do not give your child eye drops at home.
Nasolacrimal duct obstruction
Nasolacrimal duct obstruction is what we usually call tear duct obstruction, so we often see a lot of small baby tears, always a lot of eye droppings.
Most babies don't have tears in the first two weeks of life, and they start crying when they cry later. Once tears are produced, drainage is required, but the baby's tear ducts are narrow and cannot be drained completely, resulting in the eyes always watery, and then white, yellow, and even green secretions soon appear in the eyes.
If the baby is really blocked with nasolacrimal ducts, then we parents should not worry too much, babies within 6 months can be conservatively treated under the guidance of a doctor, that is, through massage to promote the opening of the nasolacrimal duct.
If your baby has not gotten better for a long time, you can go to the hospital to consult a pediatrician and, if necessary, perform tear duct exploration.
trichiasis
Due to the baby's low nose bridge, the distance between the eyes is relatively far, the inner side of the lower eyelid will have a slight inversion, forming inverted eyelashes, its growth is not outward upward growth, but inward, which will stimulate the eyes to secrete more tears.
This is a problem in the development process, parents do not have to be too anxious, by the age of one year, eyelashes will naturally grow outwards, and eye droppings will gradually decrease.
Parents can usually wipe the baby's eye feces clean with a wet towel, or use a cotton swab dipped in 2% boric acid solution to wipe it clean from the inner corner of the eye to the outside corner of the eye.
If you want to be treated, you can consult a doctor, who will evaluate the number and location of the inverted eyelashes.
If your baby's eye has the following conditions, you should seek medical attention in time:
1. The baby's eye droppings suddenly increased, and after the doctor's guidance for massage, there was no obvious improvement;
2. A large amount of pus-like secretions appear in the baby's eyes;
3. The eyes are hyperemic, red, and even the cornea appears with white spots;
4. Swelling of the eyes, increased skin temperature, fever, tenderness.
In life, whether it is the baby's urine is yellow, or the eyes are more, these common phenomena, we always explain them all as "fire", in fact, "fire" originates from the traditional medicine for some "inflammation" symptoms. In fact, in the diagnosis of our modern doctors, there is no concept of "fire".
Just like we usually say that the corners of the mouth ulcerate, that belongs to the oral mucosal disease; the eye feces are more, belong to the eye disease; the mouth ulcer belongs to the digestive tract disease, and the yellowing of the urine belongs to the urinary disease, and the so-called "fire" in our mouth is some clinical manifestations of these diseases.
Therefore, when the child is a little uncomfortable, don't talk about it as "on fire" anymore, we need to look for problems from the root, if it is a lack of water, then make up for it, if it is necessary to use antibiotics, then use antibiotics.
If you blindly follow the traditional saying, it will delay the disease after a long time.