What to do if your newborn’s eye gets an eyelash in it

Newborns with eyelashes in their eyes can be observed first, and if they can’t come out for a long time or the baby’s eyes are red and other symptoms can be tried to use sterile saline to flush them out.
Newborn baby eyelashes are soft, fall into the eye can generally through the tears secretion, blinking and other ways out of the eye. Therefore, you can first observe, if the baby does not have symptoms of discomfort, you do not need to be too nervous.
If the baby’s eyes into the eyelashes after rubbing the eyes, or eye redness, like to close the eyes, you can try to use sterile saline, so that the baby to take the prone position, the head tilted to enter the eyelashes into the eye side, gently fix the head, the parents wash their hands, gently peeled open the baby’s lower eyelids, with the flow of sterile saline rinsing, the flow of water should be gentle.
If the baby still has symptoms of discomfort, it is recommended to bring the baby to the hospital in a timely manner.