What to do if your baby has a lot of eye boogers

Many babies are found soon after birth with a lot of yellow eye droppings (eye secretions), sometimes the eyes will be wet, the white eyeball is not very red, what is going on? The old man in the family will say: it does not matter, it is fire, breastfeeding mother eat less spicy things on the good, no need to go to the hospital. The mother and father should be aware that your baby may have neonatal dacryocystitis. In the early stages, conservative treatment is possible: local massage of the tear sac area, application of antibiotic eye drops and eye ointment. If conservative treatment is not effective, lacrimal duct irrigation and dacryocystoplasty can be considered, and we usually start treatment after 2 months of age. We found that early lacrimal duct irrigation and lacrimal duct exploration are more effective than late lacrimal duct irrigation because prolonged inflammation of the lacrimal sac can easily lead to adhesions in the surrounding tissues, bleeding during the operation, and not easy to be explored. Therefore, it is important to treat newborn babies as early as possible when eye stools appear in their eyes and not to delay the treatment. Jing Huang, Ophthalmology Department, Jinan Children’s Hospital