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Any tips on getting eye drops into a nearly 3 year old?

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heavenlyghosty · 01/12/2006 18:45

[frustrated]

DD clamps her eyes shut and will NOT let me near here. I hate the doctor for prescribing them 3 bloody times a bloody day

Any tips?

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busybusymum · 01/12/2006 18:52

I had to put them in for a 3 yo in my care recently. We first started with her laying on the sofa I held her eye open and dropped it in, she flinched but I had promised a choc button if we did it. After a few days she just tipped her head back and then asked for her choc!

Halle · 01/12/2006 18:55

Eyes shut is oddly enough the way I was recommended to put the drop into my eyes. If you can get her to lie down, as the eye is shut put the drops in... when she opens them sufficient liquid should run in. Good luck!

morningpaper · 01/12/2006 18:56

DH has to hold ours down and hold the hands down and I prise the eye open and get the drops in - having two chocolate buttons to hand (one for each eye) - lots of protests but forgets immediately when choc buttons are produced

SnowMuchToBits · 01/12/2006 19:01

We managed it by sinking the blinking song, and ds had to blink as much as possible.

The blinking song goes thus:-

So...we'll......blink-a-blink-a-blink
to Lily the Pink the pink the pink
the saviour of the human ra ha hace.
For she invented medicinal eyedrops
most efficacious in every case.

But perhaps we are unusual...

carol3 · 01/12/2006 19:04

Had to do this a few times with dd used to but two doses in when she was asleep am and pm then bribe her for the third she always but on dol which helped.

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heavenlyghosty · 01/12/2006 19:16

Thanks guys ...
Yesterday we did the 'DH holding down' thing but he isn't here now so I tried the chocolate bribe which didn't work ...
In the end, I just couldn't manage to prise her eyes open and she was struggling and turning her head so I put them in the inner corner of her closed eye and held her head still until she opened her eye and it dribbled in ... then I did the next one ....
Very stressful

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SlightlyMadSanta · 01/12/2006 21:34

Our GP doesn't prescribe antibiotic drops for infection any more (unless v bad or prolonged) as apparently current research suggests they clear up on there own anyway (was right about DD3). So I wouldn't be overly concerned if you can't get much in or it all seems to run away.

Last time we had to do it we wrapped tightly in a towel/sheet (like swaddling a baby) to restrain arms. Laying them back on a beanbag seemed to give a good angle for you to administer.

Even if the eyes are closed the drops will go in when they open their eyes.

HTH

motherinfurrierfestivefrock · 01/12/2006 21:39

Think you just have to bite the bullet and do it. DD1 is only getting the hang of it now and she'll be six in Feb.

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