A four-year-old child was bitten by a dog and injured the tear ducts of his eyes

Four-year-old Xiao Man, who lives in Lianshui, is a child with big and good-looking eyes. Last week, his parents took him to visit a relative’s house, who has a big adult watchdog that is usually chained in the yard because it is very vicious. In the evening meal, Xiao Man ate roast pork, chewed half a day how can not bite, so ready to spit out the meat. At this point, the adults on the side said, throwing away the strange pity, why not feed this piece of meat to the dog. When Xiao Man heard that he wanted to feed the dog, he immediately jumped and ran to the yard, and was ready to spit the meat in the big dog’s food bowl. At that moment, the big dog, which had been quiet, smelled the meat and could not wait to leap up and bite him in the face. When the adults heard the sound of children crying rushed out and found that Xiao Man’s left eye was bleeding more than, rushed to take the child to the hospital emergency room. When the doctor checked, he found that Xiao Man’s left eye had a broken lower tear duct and a full laceration of the lower eyelid skin, which could lead to lifelong tear spillage if surgery was not done to connect the tear duct. Since the eye was bitten by the dog’s sharp teeth, the wound was irregular and difficult to suture. The doctor recommended immediate transfer to the ophthalmology department of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University. The parents drove more than 260 kilometers overnight to Nanjing when it was already four in the morning. After a careful examination, Dr. Lou Bin of the Second Affiliated Hospital said that their concerns about lifelong tearing could be solved by performing a tear duct fracture anastomosis and eyelid skin laceration debridement suturing under general anesthesia. One week later, Xiao Man’s eye wound had completely healed, his lower eyelid had formed smoothly, and his tear ducts had been anastomosed, and he was recently discharged from the hospital without incident. Zhang Xiaojun, director of the Department of Ophthalmology, said that tear duct rupture injuries like Xiaoman’s are a relatively common form of ocular trauma and can lead to eyelid deformity and tear overflow after healing if not treated correctly and in a timely manner.