What to do if your child has a fever and red spots around his eyes

Children are prone to fever because of their poor resistance. However, some children have red spots around their eyes after having a fever. This is most likely caused by the expansion of capillaries caused by fever. The symptoms will gradually disappear after the fever subsides. If the baby still has red spots around the eyes after the fever subsides, you need to go to the hospital for treatment. So what should I do if my child has red spots around his eyes when he has a fever?

First, what should you do if your child has red spots around his eyes when he has a fever? If your baby has a cold and fever and his eyes turn red, it may be due to capillary dilation caused by the fever. However, if the red eyes still appear after the fever subsides, it may be conjunctivitis complicated by the cold and fever. Conjunctivitis is an inflammation of the conjunctiva caused by bacterial or viral infection. It is a contact infectious disease that can easily infect oneself and others repeatedly, causing epidemic outbreaks and affecting health and the environment. If conjunctivitis is not treated promptly, it will often develop into the cornea, affect vision and may develop into other eye diseases. Therefore, it is very important to prevent the occurrence of conjunctivitis.

Second, find out the cause and cut off the allergen. First, take your baby to the hospital. During the diagnosis and treatment process, carefully find out the cause. Once you know the cause of your baby's eye disease, you should immediately avoid contact and stop the stimulation of allergens. Prepare a special towel. Towels and handkerchiefs used by babies should be kept separate and boiled in boiling water for 5 to 10 minutes after each use.

Third, apply cold compress to the eyes. Use a cool towel or cold water bag to apply cold compress to your baby's eyes, and avoid hot compress, because hot compress will increase the local temperature and dilate blood vessels, resulting in increased secretions and worsening symptoms.

What should I do if my child has a fever and red spots around his eyes? Use eye drops. When putting eye drops in your baby's eye, you must first comfort the baby and let the baby lie on his back with his face upwards, so that the eye drops can stay in the conjunctiva for a while. In addition, the gaps in the conjunctiva are very small, making it difficult for eye drops to stay. Plus, the eyelids keep blinking, so the eye drops can only stay for a short time. So be sure to apply eye drops frequently as instructed by your doctor, and do not reduce the frequency without authorization, so that the eye drops can work effectively. The same applies to applying ointment. In order to avoid affecting the baby's vision, eye ointment is usually applied before going to bed.

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