DD has a gunky eye - can I do something to it with breastmilk?

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Do I try and squirt it in or what?

Just express some onto your fingers and wipe it on gently. It does seem to work, for some weird reason (well, it did with DS3 anyway).

Basically yes try and drip some over her eye!Supposed to be very good!

Express a drop or two onto your finger (so it's a big blob) then put it at the inner corner of her eye and tip her gently so it fills her eye when she blinks iyswim. Looks gross and cloudy, but works a treat!

chamomile tea made hot anc oooled is also nice on the eyes, dd gets recurrent conjunctivitis and we use both.
She is 3.5 now and I stopped feeding her at 16 mths but I cna still squeeze enough out to drop in her eyes and it does keep it at bay

DD now has a nice milky eye .

Wow Piffle, you can still get a few drops?! That's great.

DD has just had sticky eye and we just let it run it's course as we weren't keen on using antibiotic drops. I completely forgot I could have used breastmilk, but will remember for next time.

tbh I never stopped from ds he is now 12 so was 9 when I had dd, it never dired up totally

Conjunctivitis is an infection which needs to be treated with antibiotics. My 10 month old baby boy had it a couple on weeks ago and they were pore with muck a seven day course of twice a day drops cleared it up, breast milk didn't help this time but has before. at the end of the day an infection like that is very sore and needs to be treated in the most effective way.

Eye is back to normal again today .

hi
saw on the news the other day about a medical trial they did with people with conjuntivitis, gave half drops and half nothing both sets of people cleared up in around the same time 5-7 days, so just proves that for eye infections antibiotics are not needed.
DS has a gunky eye at mo had it three days not doing anything with it tosee what happens its not bothering him but will squirt abit of eb in it later!!

Found the breastmilk worked nicely with ds3 this time around, had never heard of it as a remedy when I had ds1 and ds2. It will clear up by itself in time as elclose says. I often wonder how many parents manage to get the drops in in any case, I found once they got old enough to co-operate it was OK but when they were babies it required a battle and preferably two parents! And choloromycetin tastes yuck when it drips down the back of your nose. Mine would prefer breastmilk any day!

yes yes yes breastmilk is fab, this really does work.
Just squirt it in (if your aim is good!) or express on to cotton wool and wipe with that.
(not talking about conjunctivitis tho, I just mean sticky eye like babie sget (well, mine did))

That is conjuncivitis, Clary! Babies tend to get it a bit stickier than adults though.

No really?
durrrr
Honestly dd had conjunctivitis recently and it looked nothing like th egammy eyes ds1 used to get all the time as a baby.
Feel very stupid now. But then it is late at night!

Some babies get it badly. Ds1 and ds3 seemed to always be quite badly affected whereas with ds2, one wipe and it was fine! But ds1 and ds3 are always picking up bugs. Ds2 is hardier generally!