What to do if your baby has conjunctivitis

It is said that eyes are the windows to the soul. When the eyes are sick, it will have a direct impact on people's lives. Conjunctivitis is a common clinical disease. This disease is more common in children and women. When a baby's eyes suffer from conjunctivitis, there will be very obvious symptoms, so treatment measures must be taken in time. So what should you do when your baby has conjunctivitis? Learn more.

1. 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. As children grow up, if they do not pay attention to hand hygiene and rub their eyes with dirty hands, or have a cold or fever, it can cause eye inflammation and conjunctivitis caused by other infections. The children will feel uncomfortable, and the adults will suffer as well.

2. 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. 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.

4. 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.