Tear Ducts
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Clogged Tear Duct
Asked by S.W. from Provo
on January 24, 2008
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My 8 month old has had a clogged tear duct since birth. I've massaged it ( probably not as often as I should ) but it just isn't clearing up. My pediatrician just sa...
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- Hi! I had three kids with this problem and my pediatrician told me to massage the tear duct by FIRMLY (and when he domnstrated it, let me tell ya' it was VERY firmly ...
- My son and my daughter both had this problem. I was very afraid of the surgery at first. I made my son wait until he was 18 months to do the surgery. He is 5 now and h...
- S., it may sound wierd but if you are breast feeding, your milk has wonderful healing properties. My two girls both had this problem and thats what I did. It cleared...
Clogged Tear Duct...
Asked by C.B. from Dallas
on September 18, 2007
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My almost 3 month old has had a clogged tear duct since she was born. The doctor is giving it until she is 6 months to see if it will go away on its own. He has not ...
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- C., Don't worry about her clogged duct. My daughter had one until she was 16 months old. The doctor I saw at Presby Plano tried pressing on the channel, but it didn...
- Massage with a warm wash cloth and drop a drop of breast milk in her eye. This worked for us with our new born last year.
- Hi C., My daughter had the same problem at that age. We were instructed to wash our hands well and then gently massage the area. It cleared up after awhile. It wou...
Blocked Tear Duct
Asked by A.M. from Oklahoma City
on February 23, 2008
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I have a one year old son who still has a blocked tear duct. I feel more comfortable waiting a little while before surgery. We are massaging it. We have never had a...
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- I am an optometrist in Moore. I agree with the last comment regarding at least SEEING a pediatric ophthalmologist. It is fine to wait 1-2 years and keep massaging. ...
- My son was born with a blocked tear duct. We massaged and messed with it for a year and it never did work. We went to a ped opth in Amarillo (our fam doc is from TX) a...
- My daughter had this surgery done...We tried to massage it, but it did not work...I can't really remember if she was 1 or not...But it really was nothing...We took her...
Blocked Tear Duct
Asked by A.F. from St. Louis
on July 18, 2008
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Hi- My 7 month-old has had a blocked tear duct since birth. I've massaged it and cleaned it daily, but just recently, it had gotten infected so we went to the dr. He...
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- Our daughter had blocked ducts from birth as well. Her eyes were constantly gooky and/or infected. We finally scheduled the surgery and she got sick the day before i...
- Our baby had this condition too. The dr we go to said he would waite untill after the baby was 12 monthes before he would suggest the probe. Fortuinately it clured it'...
- Hi A., My son had blocked tearducts in BOTH eyes from birth. We treated with massage, antibiotic eye drops and when it got really bad, steroid eye drops. Our pedia...
Clogged Tear Duct
Asked by B.S. from Fort Myers
on October 15, 2008
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My daughter was born with a clogged tear duct. Her poor eye is always red, always draining, and when she wakes up has eye boogers in it. I have tried several different...
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- go get the procedure done! i waited and shouldn't have, it was quick and easy. yes, hard to watch them probe a metal rod into your baby's eye but my baby was fine 30...
- My friends (2 different ones) had to have surgery for the little ones. It really was easy(although that's hard to think of when they are that little), but it took like...
- Just keep doing what you are doing... two of my three had clogged tear ducts. One cleared up around 6 months, one right before a year. We were in Texas with the firs...
Clogged Tear Duct
Asked by H.B. from Dallas
on August 15, 2009
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My four month old son has had an underdeveloped tear duct since he was born. I have never really worried over it and the doctor said that if it isn't cleared up by the...
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- Hubby is a nurse and we went through this with one of our kiddo...just warm/hot water cloth on his eye a couple of times a day and within a week or so it should clear ...
- My daughter had this as well. Most of the time we just wiped it with a warm washcloth and it was fine but there were a few times it got infected and we had to do drop...
- Our daughter went throught the same thing. We just kept wipes or wet wash cloths around to clean her face when we saw the green stuff. Part of her green stuff was al...
Surgery for Blocked Tear Duct
Asked by J.W. from Washington DC
on March 15, 2008
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My daughter is 14 months we just scheduled her to have a blocked tear duct opened and a "stint" put in. One of her eyes tears regularly and they recommend that we do t...
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- My daughter, now 8, had this done when she was over 2yo. The first time she went to have it checked she was having a "good eye" day and no tears or green stuff stuck ...
- My neighbors granddaughter had that done. She was about the same age. It was a breeze. Everything is fine now and she is turning 2 next month.
- Hello J., My daughter, which is 9 years old now, had issues with her tear duct since she was 9 months old. She was in and out of the hospital for IV antibiotics un...
Blocked Tear Duct SURGERY
Asked by V.S. from Austin
on November 4, 2008
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Hi all! My 15 month old son is going to need surgery to unblock his tear duct on his left eye. We see his surgeon this Friday, but no date posted as of yet. I was c...
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- My son had this done a few years back and let me tell you that it made a WORLD of difference. His eye cleared up wonderfully. The recovery time was nothing, he slept m...
- My daughter had the block tear duct in both eyes. De Musgrove was who we saw. We were going to have the surgery but was very nervous about it. We had it set up and wit...
- My response is different than everybody else. My now 23 year old had a stopped up tear duct when he was 1. We had seen the dr. about it and watched it for a whil...
Son with Clogged Tear Duct
Asked by H.H. from Washington DC
on July 1, 2009
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My son has had a clogged tear duct since he was about 3 months old. His Ped got concerned now that he's 12 months and sent us to an ophthalmologist. The eye dr said ...
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- Both of my kids had this. I would just get a warm washcloth throughout the day and using my finger, place it on the tear duct for about a minute, gently moving in circ...
- Ok this is gonna sound nuts but it worked for me. When my daughter was born she had a clogged duct. My cousin who is a nurse knew a doctor who swore by this. When yo...
- Hello, my son had the same thing and what I did was massage the part of the eye where the tear duct is with my hands while he was taking a bath with warm water. You h...
Blocked Tear Duct
Asked by R.T. from Dallas
on April 14, 2008
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My 5 1/2 month old daughter has a blocked tear duct. She has had it since she was about a month old, but recently it has gotten alot worse. It constantly waters and ge...
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- My 2nd son had the same problem...i know it's so frustrating...it cleared up right before his first b-day. just be very gentle when wiping the eye area. (i'm sure u ar...
- When my son was a few months old we experienced this. Several times a day I would with my index finger gently apply pressure on the tear duct for several seconds and ...
- My son has had this problem since he was born. The doctor told me to put a warm wet washcloth over his eyes while i am feeding him and then gently massage the tear du...
