Blocked Tear Ducts
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Stuff in Newborns Eye
Asked by J.C. from Philadelphia
on June 2, 2011
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My daughter is a little over a month old now and I have noticed a few times that there will be stuff laying rite on her actual eyeball. Like one day it was an eye boog...
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- Usually having something irritating in the eye causes tears that wash it out. You can also help it out by using eye drops or even by carefully pulling it out after th...
- Take a warm washcloth and place it on her eye and rub it around when her eyes are closed. If this seems to be a continual problem,call the pediatricians office and see...
- Take a cotton ball or clean washcloth and wet it with plain water. Wipe the eye from the inside to the outside corners. Make sure you use a different cotton ball or ...
Can You Recommend a Kid's Optomertrist? (Northside Chicago)
Asked by B. from Chicago
on July 23, 2008
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I need to take my son for a vision check up before he starts kindergarten. Can you recommend a kind and wonderful optomertrist for children? :)
Thanks
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- B.: Jerry Silverman ###-###-#### P., RLC, IBCLC Breastfeeding and Parenting Solutions
- Hi my son saw Dr. Susan Taub as well. She's very kind and was recommended by my pediatrician. She is an opthamologist vs. optomertrist. Pediatrics is one of her specia...
- Yes! My babies saw Dr. Taub, she was wonderful! She has a couple different locations, we saw her up at Lawrence by the lake. ###-###-####. Edit: I think she is ...
Watery and Leaking Eye in 1 Year Old
Asked by A.A. from Boston
on June 10, 2009
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Hey ladies! Lookin for some advice here... My one year old son's right eye has been watering and producing "eye boogies" all day. He has no fever and the eye in not re...
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- The same thing was happening with my 16 month old son and my pediatrician said it is sometimes a sign of an ear infection (which it was).
- My son had the same problem, basically from birth. His eye constantly leaked yellowish fluid though is eye was not red. The doctor recommended (as one of the other res...
- Hi A.! Check with your pedi...Could be the tear duct...could be conjuctivitis....My 7 year old son (also named Javier) just had conjuctivitis along w/ a cold....goopy...
Puffy Eye
Asked by E.H. from Chicago
on July 3, 2009
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Just wondering if anyone has any idea what's going on with my daughters eye! She is 19 weeks and I noticed this morning her left eye is puffy. Both lids and her eyeb...
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- I agree with the other response who said about the clogged tear duct. It is very common around that age. It helps if you massage the inside corner of the eye close to ...
- Try to put cold wash rags on the eye several times today to reduce the swelling. She could have a slight allergy to something, my son had puffy eyes when he was a few ...
- Hi- our 18 week old had a swollen eye and it got a little gooky. The doctor said it was probably a blocked tear duct. The best way to help it is to massage the tear ...
Pinkeye?
Asked by J.T. from Charlotte
on September 15, 2010
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Hello! For the past couple of weeks or so, my baby has had one eye that always turns red when he eats something (like a bottle usually) and tears up. He doesn't have h...
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- It could be a clogged tear duct. Pink eye usually crusts over when they wake up. Calling the doc is easy though, usually you will get a nurse and they will ask the d...
- Doesn't sound like pink eye, which is highly contagious. You can squirt just a few drops of breastmilk in his eye though just in case. It truly is the best remedy! ...
- If you're breastfeeding, you can put a few drops of breast milk in his eye. Breast milk will clear the infection. Breast milk is liquid GOLD! Peace, J.
Pink Eye
Asked by K.E. from Lincoln
on December 21, 2006
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I have a son, 15 mo old, and he has had pink eye over and over. it will clear up and then a week or two later, it comes back. My doc prescribes these drops to use fo...
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- This may not be pink eye...my daughter had this as well but she is 11 years old...we took her to an eye doc instead of her pediatrition and were told she had an infect...
- Go see a pediatric ophthalmologist. My family has a history of bad vision and eye problems so we took our 6 month old in for a check up with a pediatric ophthalmolo...
- I would take him to either a different pediatrician or a pediatric ophthalmologist to be sure what is going on. I myself have had a chronic infection my left eye ...
Dry Eye
Asked by A.M. from Dallas
on August 25, 2006
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Does anyone have dry eye? I was recently diagnosed with this and am having headaches on the left side which is my drier eye (left). I was also diagnosed with severe ...
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- I took Primrose Oil and when that bottle ran out I switched to Borage Oil. After that bottle was almost finished I dreadedly had to quit taking the Borage Oil because...
- I know someone who has had dry eye for over 20 years. That person has been using eye drops (all kinds) for that same amt of time. The eye drops haven't helped much e...
- I've just been diagnosed w/dry eye too and I'm trying to wear contact lenses. Dr says my tears dissolve too quickly which means they are not oily enough to adequately ...
Tubes in Ears
Asked by C.C. from Kansas City
on November 24, 2008
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This is a question for my sister, her 1 year old daughter is going to have tubes put into her ears. What can she do to comfort her before the surgery being she can no...
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- My oldest had tubes placed at the same age as your niece. W had an early appt. and like someone ele said had to be there an hour early. Make sure she brings a bottle...
- Hi C.-I know how scary this can be because my youngest son had tubes placed in his ears when he was 13 months old. The eating and drinking thing is hard, we just trie...
- My son had tubes and you have to be at the hospital early so there isn't much time to get too upset about eating. The rest of the day afer his surgery he played and w...
Eyelid Infection in 16 Month Old
Asked by L.S. from Salt Lake City
on January 7, 2009
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Hello! I took my daughter in to the doctor for an eye infection yesterday. After looking at her, he said it was an "eyelid infection" and not pink eye. He prescribed a...
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- My son had what looked like a scratch on his eyelid, which it originally was, but it didn't look right. I took him in the his doctor tested for staph, and low and beh...
- 1st of all- I heard of the breast milk thing when I had my 1st child and I tried it and I believe it cured her eye infection. I also researched it and it is very safe....
- If you still nurse or know of anyone that does you could put some breastmilk in her eye.Sounds weird, but it's great at clearing up infections. When I was nursing, my ...
Eye Infections
Asked by A.R. from Detroit
on August 29, 2010
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My 17 month old has greenish/yellow discharge coming from her eye. The eye itself is not red, but is puffy underneath (I believe from me cleaning it out with a cotton...
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- Sounds like a blocked tear duct?
- I had the same issu about a month ago. We had Pink eye running through and all my girls got it twice. So as soon as it was done with in 24 hrs later someone got it bac...
- We are actually going through the same thing with our newborn. It comes and goes with the weather. I think it is allergy related, but we have not been to he doctor f...
