What should I do if my child has red and swollen eyes due to a cold?

It is a common physical illness for children to catch a cold during their growth and development. A cold not only easily causes runny nose or fever, but also easily breeds bacteria. After a child catches a cold, it is also easy to cause redness and swelling in the corners of the eyes. Timely treatment is required. You can clean the corners of the child's eyes, and parents also need to observe more often.

Children often play outdoors. After playing, many children do not like to wash their hands because the water is cold. In addition, they like to rub their eyes with their hands. The germs on dirty hands can easily be rubbed into the eyes and cause conjunctivitis.

If your child shows the above symptoms, you should wash his eyes with saline solution in time, and it is best to wash them several times a day. Then use 0.25% chloramphenicol eye drops to the eyes. It is better to use eye ointment at night. It should be noted that if a child's eyes are inflamed, they should be treated promptly to prevent it from developing into a chronic disease. Once the inflammation disappears, medication should not be used for a long time to reduce the irritation of foreign objects to the eyes.

1. Cut off the transmission route. Do not use the patient's towels, handkerchiefs, washbasins, school supplies, etc.

2. After contact with the patient's eyes or objects, wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water.

3. Eliminate the bad habit of rubbing your eyes with your hands.

Conjunctivitis in children 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.

1. Keep your hands and toiletries clean. Children are easily exposed to all kinds of unhygienic toys and items. Schools and parents should educate children to develop the habit of washing hands frequently and protecting their eyes from an early age. Children's toiletries should be separate and disinfected frequently to reduce bacterial growth.

2. When classmates or family members show symptoms of conjunctivitis, attention should be paid to the occurrence of cross infection. Children who have been infected with conjunctivitis should also pay attention to isolation, reduce visits to public places, and avoid spreading the disease to family members, other children, and others.

3. For children with allergic diseases, various protective measures should be taken before contact with allergens, such as using mast cell stabilizers in advance to alleviate the symptoms of allergic conjunctivitis.

4. Children have poor safety awareness. Parents and schools should pay attention to cultivating children's self-protection awareness, preventing them from coming into contact with all kinds of toxic and harmful substances, and reducing the occurrence of accidents.

5. Children have a rapid growth and metabolism, so they need to strengthen their physical fitness, improve their resistance and reduce the risk of infection.