Conjunctivitis

[justamum98]

Hi all,

I have a 5 week old little girl. She keeps getting conjunctivitis.

her first was when she was 9 days and using pre boiled cold water to gently rinse her eyes helped and it went away. Then she got it at 3 weeks old so we got some eye drops from doctors and it went away. A day later … (she’s 5 weeks now) and it’s back…

any ideas? My first born never had conjunctivitis in his life and he’s 3 now. Just seems really odd that she keeps getting it and those eye drops she was prescribed is an antibiotic so shouldn’t use it too often.

If you are breast feeding you can use breast milk to wipe the eye, that can help.
Not all conjunctivitis is an infection, sometimes it can just be a blockage in the eye duct because they're normally developed yet.
We've had conjunctivitis quite a few times with the our little girl and not we just wiping regularly seems to do the trick rather than antibiotics. Both myself and the GP didn't want to keep giving antibiotics

Highly recommend breast milk too.

Thank you everyone. Do you put it inside the eye or just use it on cotton pad and wipe away any discharge?

Cotton pad an wipe. never rewipe.wipe once away from eye and throw

Definitely agree with breast milk. Worked for my son