What should I do if my child has conjunctivitis?

Conjunctivitis is a common eye disease in real life. Not only adults but children are also prone to conjunctivitis. Conjunctivitis in children can easily have a great impact on their eye development, and can also easily cause redness, swelling, pain and other symptoms in the eyes. Children with conjunctivitis can be treated with some eye drops, and cold compresses can also be used to relieve the symptoms.

How to treat conjunctivitis in children ?

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.

2. Prepare special towels. Towels and handkerchiefs used by babies should be kept separate and boiled in boiling water for 5 to 10 minutes after each use.

3. Apply cold compress to 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.

4. 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.

What should parents pay attention to when their children have conjunctivitis?

First of all, we need to understand what kind of disease conjunctivitis is. Conjunctivitis. Conjunctivitis is mainly an inflammatory response of the conjunctiva caused by bacterial or viral infection, and it often occurs in spring and summer when bacteria and viruses multiply at their peak.

Conjunctivitis is highly contagious, commonly known as pink eye. However, it does not mean that you will be infected just by looking at the other person's eyes suffering from conjunctivitis. The contagiousness is mainly manifested in the infection of the patient's eye secretions. If you do not pay attention to eye hygiene, you can easily get conjunctivitis.

If a child has conjunctivitis, parents need to educate their children not to rub their eyes with dirty hands, and not to use public towels, washbasins and other items. If there are students with conjunctivitis in the school, parents should educate their children to stay away from them as much as possible, wash their hands frequently with running water, and it is best to use soap or hand sanitizer every time.