Advice needed: 22 mth-old woken up with swollen/puffy eye

[snooks]

Does anyone have any advice what I can bathe it with?

It's my fault, after baths last night I noticed he'd had his hand in my Palmers Cocoa Butter that I rub onto my bump (I'm pg) and it's v. greasy stuff, then I noticed him really rubbing his eye. I should've bathed it there and then. This morning his eyelid is very puffy (first thing he could hardly open it) and looks like he's been in a fight. It's not itchy, no discharge etc. Is there anything I can do to reduce the puffiness?

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dissolve some salt in a jug of pre-boiled water let it cool slightly then bathe his eye in this solution with some cotton wool.
If thsi doesn't appear to help I'd get him along to your local pharmacy and ask their advice.
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Oh how weird - I've just posted about exactly the same thing! here

Thanks flier - I've boiled the kettle.

Larry - how bizarre - my poor ds looks like this -

I'm pretty sure in his case it isn't an infection - only because his hand was covered in my oily cocoa butter then I saw him rubbing his eye repeatedly, then he went straight to sleep.

Will you let me know if you go to the gp and your ds has anything more serious that you need to treat? I hope both our ds's eyes are better soon glad your ds feels ok in himself too.

Just got back from doc. It's just conjunctivitis (viral). Doc suggested eyedrops. I asked if it would be ok to wait and see if it gets worse, he said yes. Gave me prescrip just in case.

Hope your DS's eye de-puffs soon!

How is your DS Snooks?

Larry and flier, thanks for asking about ds.

I remember him having conjunctivitis when he was about 6 mths old and having eyedrops. That looked different to this though - when he had conj. both eyes were slightly swollen, red-rimmed and weepy, whereas today it's been just one eyelid swollen like a golf ball and no weeping. I bathed it with salt water flier, and also tried to hold a cold pack thingy on the eyelid (neither of which he was too chuffed about...). It did seem to get progressively better throughout the day, ending up just a bit 'wonky', but at bathtime (no cocoa butter involved this time) I'm sure it started to swell up again and he was rubbing it (prob tired though). I'm pretty sure it will be puffy again tomorrow so think I will nip to gps to rule anything out (I've got a phobia of leaving things til the weekend then them getting suddenly worse).

Larry hope your ds's eyes are ok, the eyedrops did work pretty quickly if you feel like using them.

Hi snooks - same here (in fact the doc pointed out that I'd been in almost exactly this time last year with DS's conjunctivitis!). His eye was not at all gunky/red today though

DS's eye did look better in the afternoon, but then got puffier later on. Ah well...I'll get the eyedrops if it looks worse tomorrow.

Hi Larry

Hope your ds is better today? Well my ds's eye was puffed up again this am so took him to the docs. GP said it wasn't conjunctivitis but was an infection and had spread to the eyelid - I could kick myself for not taking him yesterday [guilt guilt]. He said they can be serious if not treated... he gave me some eyedrops and some penicillin-based medicine, but said there prob won't be much of an improvement til later tomorrow. He also booked us another appt to go back tomorrow to check progress - our docs here are great, unlike where we used to live.

I'm usually a paranoid mum who goes to the docs with most things that turn out to be nothing, can't believe the time I don't there is actually something wrong. Glad I went this am though.

Hope things are better with you too.

All is better here. Didn't need to do the drops!

Hope your DS is no longer: