What should I do to cure my baby’s tearfulness? In a normal fetus, the lower opening of the nasolacrimal duct opens at 8 months of age, and the tear duct is completely open before birth, with tears flowing to the nasal cavity. If the nasolacrimal duct is closed by membranous tissue or blocked by epithelial debris after birth, tears cannot flow through the nasolacrimal duct to the nasal cavity, but are retained in the lacrimal sacs and conjunctival sacs, and the infant will have tearfulness. There is also often an overflow of purulent discharge from the inner corners of the eyes. This is a common eye condition in newborns and infants: congenital dacryocystitis. What is the treatment for congenital dacryocystitis? Simply ordering anti-inflammatory eye drops will not work because they can only control the infection, not remove the root cause of the disease. The focus should be on how to make the nasolacrimal duct open and unobstructed. Treatments include massage, tear duct irrigation, and tear duct probing. Generally speaking, for children under 40 days old, massage therapy is feasible. First wash your hands and press the tear duct with your index finger, the tear fluid and pus in the tear duct will overflow from the tear duct. Then press toward the nasolacrimal duct 2~3 times, several times a day. In order to break the membranous tissue at the opening of the nasolacrimal duct, infants aged 40 days to less than 3 months are treated with lacrimal irrigation to break through the membranous tissue, and infants aged more than 3 months are treated with lacrimal exploratory surgery to puncture the membranous tissue. According to the statistics of our department, the cure rate of massage treatment is 12%, the cure rate of flushing treatment is 30%, and the cure rate of tear duct exploratory surgery is 98%. If none of the above methods work, you should consider whether there is a nasal bone deformity, and choose the appropriate surgery according to the situation when you get older. Some parents are afraid of the complications and scars that may arise from tear duct exploratory surgery. This is an unnecessary concern. Our department has performed thousands of successful surgeries. This surgery is a fast, safe, needle-to-disease treatment. Home care points: Parents should wash their hands before applying eye drops and massaging the tear ducts. Use your index finger to press the tear sac first to press out the secretions in the tear sac. In order to facilitate the eye drops into the tear duct. Diagnosis and treatment of misunderstanding: 1, that the baby tears is a normal phenomenon, will naturally disappear after growing up. 2, see eye secretions, think it is conjunctivitis or “fire eye”, and not to the hospital. Neonatal dacryocystitis is easily confused with conjunctivitis, and can only be diagnosed through the doctor’s tear duct irrigation, and only timely and correct treatment will have a good recovery. If the treatment is not timely or the method is incorrect, it can cause mucus cysts of the lacrimal sac, acute attacks of chronic dacryocystitis and conjunctivitis and other adverse consequences.