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My Six Month Old Has White Goo in His Eyes
He may have conjunctivitis (pink eye) or at the very least an minor eye infection ... Take your son to the doctor it sounds like pink eye or conjunctivitis. ...
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- If the white of his eye is also red, it may be pink eye. I would have your MD take a look. He may need drops. Be careful to keep your hands away from your eyes becas...
- Take your son to the doctor it sounds like pink eye or conjunctivitis. Very contagious. Hope he feels better. K.
- It seems to me that your son might have pink eye. Take him to the drs. as soon as you can. They will give you eye drops or gel that you will have to put in his eyes. I...
Blocked Tear Duct
I thought it was because of a cold or conjunctivitis, but I scheduled the first .... I bet you anything this is conjunctivitis (pink eye). My son has had a ...
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- Both of my kids also had this. Just use a soft warm washcloth as a compress several times a day to clean the goop out of the eye. If you also apply mild pressure on ...
- My baby boy had a blocked tear duct too. It was gooey and gobs of boogie stuff would seep out near the tear duct. Sometimes he would wake up with his eye crusted shut ...
- When my daughter was about a month old she also had the same symptoms as your son. Our doctor told us that it was a clogged tearduct and that it could last up to a ye...
Eye Discharge Started After Swimming
I went ahead and took her to the pediatrician. he said she did have conjunctivitis but of course you can't tell whether it .... Conjunctivitis in 4 Year Old ...
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- Hi I would suggest taking her to an optometrist rather than the doctor. One of our friends is an optometrist. He suggested we shouldn't take eye problems to an MD b...
- My daughter just had pink eye, she woke up in the middle of the night crying in pain and rubbing her eye, of course it was a weekend and had to take her to All Childre...
- Which YMCA were you at? My mother took my kids swimming at the Campo Y and got an eye infection a day or so later. She went to the opthomologist and is using medicate...
Preemie and Tons of Eye Boogers Bad?
The dr called it conjunctivitis (pink eye) and gave me drops and ointment to put in his .... He may have conjunctivitis. Are you breastfeeding? Helpful? ...
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- Hey C., You might want to double check with the doctor to make sure there is not any infection (they usually take a culture sample). Although my son had the same p...
- Hi, C.. Congrats on your new little bundle! I am a NICU nurse and you should get your baby into the pediatrician. It sounds like an infection that you need to get e...
- C., I had the exact same issue with my son when he was a newborn and it turned out that his tear ducts in both eyes were clogged. This is a pretty normal occurance (I...
5Month Old Son Has Plugged Tear Duct
He has had conjunctivitis twice already and probably has it again now. ... She was put on all kinds of eye antibiotics due to conjunctivitis but the only ...
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- My son's eyes were both clogged - one until about 8 months and the other until after he was 1. Our Dr. said that they should clear up on their own by 24 months and sa...
- Hi, My son had one plugged tear duct that cleared at 5 month and 28 days it seemed. Just when I thought we were going to need to take him in, it cleared. On the other...
- I had the exact same issue with my daughter, only it was both eyes. My pediatrician, however, told me that they usually clear up by 12 months, not 6. I did the massage...
Chronic Eye Discharge
For conjunctivitis, since it did clear up he didn't have to have a surgery to open the duct, .... For some reason J & J works MIRACLES for conjunctivitis. ...
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- I don't know if this specialist exists but someone like a pedio optometrist might help. Maybe you can call an opthal- mologist's office in your area for advice or a d...
- I had this problem with my oldest daughter who is now almost 7. After a while the doctor finally said she had blocked ducts. There is a quick procedure to fix the prob...
- Has your peds doctor checked to see if their tear drops are clogged? My neice had that problem and they did a very quick and milt surgery to unclogg her tear drops
7 Month with Mattery eyes...could It Be Teething?
It could be allergies, closed tear ducts, a cold, or conjunctivitis (pink eye). If they are itchy, look to see if they are blood-shot at all. ...
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- The greenish eye discharge sounds like it could be a cold or a sinus infection. I would take her in just to be sure. Dogs can pass some things so be sure to mention i...
- It very well could be pink eye...particularly since you mentioned that it's green, which generally indicates infection. It actually sounds like it's a bacterial pink e...
- I agree with the others that it sounds like pink eye. I've had it and it can be very uncomfortable, which is probably why she is rubbing her eyes. It can be viral or...
Does a Blocked Tear Duct Go Away?
You could try a warm compress before hand as well (but not if in a conjunctivitis episode...) I hope this helps- sometimes when docs say "massage", ...
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- One of my sons had this until he was around 7 or 8 months. I didn't think it would ever go away either. But I did as you are doing now.... massage and breast milk.
- massaging it is pretty much it. it takes some time.. my son always has a tear in his eye too and his isn't blocked.. just sensitive to bright lights.. good luck
- D., My daughter had a blocked tear duct a couple of days after birth. We were prescribed an antibiotic ointment that I had to put in her eye three times a day (ery...
Pink Eye in 15 Month Old
... taken her to the doctor they had to put her on antibiotics because it always turned out that in addition to conjunctivitis she had 2 ear infections. ...
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- I just experienced the same thing with my 5 month old. Her pediatrician told me that it was a viral infection. She gave me an ointment to put in her eye. My daughter w...
- If she had pink eye the white would be pink it sounds like she has a cold in her eye wet a cloth with warm water to clean it see a doctor he will give her drops to put...
- Get your baby into the doctor. Pink eye is really painfull and uncomfortable not to mention really contageous....Don't take chances with your child's eyes and get her...
My Son's Eyes Keep Watering
Sounds like conjunctivitis (pink eye). soak his eyelids with cotton pads with boiled (and cooled down) water. That makes the crusts soft so you can clean it ...
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- A., I can't believe you just posted this because I'm having the same exact problem with my 1-year-old daughter with Down Syndrome. I have posted on some DS sites and m...
- i agree i would check him out for pink eye ... its not ALWAYS pink
- Sounds like pink eye or severe allergies. Hopefully you've got it checked out by now. :)
