Tips on how to get drops into a *strong*-*willed* chidl who has conjunctivitis please

[Tinker]

Have tried putting them on cotton wool pads and wiping her eyes but suspect not enough is getting into the eye this way.

Any foolproof(ish) ways to do it?

Bribe with [insert confectionery name of choice]

If child is older, tell it its eyeballs will frizzle away if it does not do as it's told?

My little demon angel refuses to unclench her eyes and it'll mean another day off nursery on Tuesday if I can't get the drops in.

Frizzle good but at 3 possible not quite the right tactic. Yet.

I think they can go to nursery if you've started treatment. Ha!

I had this problem with ds2, and am sorry to say after the first time (when he discovered what was involved) he would clench his eyes shut whenever the drops came near so I don't think anything really went in.

get them to lie down with their eyes closed, put the drops on the corners of their eyes, when they open their eyes the drops run in.

GP told me this, it really does work!

I might try when she's asleep, wonder if that'll work or just wake her.

The optician recently got DD (5) to close her eyes, and then dropped the drops in the corner of her eye.
When she opened her eyes, the drops smeared nicely across the conjunctiva.
Top tip

Don't they clamp your eyes open when you have laser eye surgery?

CarGirl - very good theory but I just know she woudl know whta is about to happen and scream/run off. May try with chocolate though.

My DS had this last week. Had to pin him to the floor and prise his eye lids apart with lots of screaming along the way.
Horrible thing to do but the only way to get drops in and did feed him lots of choc each time.
Managed 2 days, which was enough, and now hoping he doesn't get it again anytime soon.

You have my sympathy, I've been there and failed . Interested to hear that you can "put" them in with eyeys shut, I'll remeber that!

Aargh, at having eyes clamped open and being able to see what is happening

Even I hate putting drops in.

dd has conjunctivitis at the mo, doc said it's self limitining and current advice not to treat.

If i were you i would let them put optrex carefully in mine then i would do theirs by carefully explaining that the drops will stop the nasty green from coming and it wont hurt its like washing your eye ....if it were a girl i would perhaps suggest some sparkly lipgloss or something else for a boy i would make up a story about a boy who could see with xray eyes after eye drops .....

It's been a constant theme in her nursery for months but, amazingly, this is the first time she's actually got it.

I,ve had the pleasure of that recently!! hard when its a cream type rather than drops.I actually ended up putting it in with her eyes closed!! just stuck the nozzle in the corner and squeezed and put abit on her lashes!! hoped it would work its way in there!.Not the best method but it did go total nightmare she could not be bribed

I used to do them when DS was asleep. Catch him about 20 minutes after dropping off and it's easy.

I've tried demonstrating on myself first but to no effect

Oh good, so it can be done at sleep time. It says put drops in 4 times per day - that is just not going to happen. I've wiped her eyes with cooled boiled water, so far. That is usually quite effective and she didn't seem to mind that too much.

here you go

Oh, interesting and what I intuitively suspect as well. When I was little people used to say they had a "cold in the eye." I presume they meant conjunctivitis really. And, well, colds go all by themselvses in the end...

tep. doc said no point exposing her to anti-bs for five days when it usually clears up in that time anyway.