To administer eye drops to my 16mo DD?

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She certainly seems to think so.

She has conjunctivitis and the doctor told me to put the drops in every 2 hrs for the first 2 days. I am exhausted after the first round, which DD clearly won as I hardly managed to get any in at all.

Is Doc BU expecting me to manage to get any in at all? Or is there a knack to this?

oops sorry - posted twice

It's pretty hard to get eyedrops into kids unfortunately, but you'd be surprised at how much is actually going in. Try this:

What you do is have your toddler lie back in your lap and close their eyes. Try to relax (your child and you!) and tell them what you are doing. Next, apply two drops in the corner of their eye with their eye still closed. Now, have them open their eye. As soon as they open their eye the drops will enter the eye and it will have the same effect as if you had administered the drops with the eyes open.

Copied directly from our leaflet from the hospital I work at!

Give it a go - it does work and it's a bit less stressful then trying to pull out the eyelid!