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Baby eye drops?

3 replies

tudorqueenie · 14/04/2022 09:50

My daughter is 3 months old and she has been getting eye infections (or symptoms similar to that, maybe caused by a blocked tear duct, I don't know) since she was born. Her eyes get yellow or green discharge every other week. It can get quite bad. I always use expressed breast milk in sterile syringes and so far, this has worked wonders. But this time it doesn't seem to be going away. Is there a baby eye drop we could use? (I don't necessarily mean over the counter, I'm happy to ask the GP, but I'm wondering about other people's experiences) I also think that there's an eyelash in the corner of her eye that curls inwards and I cannot get that out - I wonder if it keeps irritating her maybe. Thankfully she doesn't seem to be in pain but I feel horrible about her having eye discharge basically without much of a break. Thanks in advance :)

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Seeline · 14/04/2022 09:53

I think you will have to go to the GP - pharmacists won't usually give eye drops for young kids. I remember having to take DS when he was a bit older than that because the pharmacist couldn't help.

vipersnest1 · 14/04/2022 09:59

Take her to the GP.
If it's blocked tear ducts, they can show you how to massage them to help with drainage.

ScarlettSing · 17/04/2022 12:30

GP.
We got an eye cream.

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