Small pimples on baby's eyelids

Whether it is an adult or a baby, the skin around the baby's eyes is in a fragile state, so everyone must protect their eyes when using their eyes in daily life. In addition, diseases are prone to occur around the eyes. Stye is a disease that often exists around the eyes. This disease can cause great pain to the eyes. So if parents find small bumps on their baby's eyelids, are they styes?

A small bump on your baby's eyelid may be a stye, which is also called a "stye" and is an acute purulent inflammation of the eyelid. At the beginning, there will be local redness, swelling and pain, and then a blister smaller than a grain of rice will appear on the eyelid, which will be painful when pressed. After a period of redness and swelling, it will turn into pus, and after a few days, it will break through and discharge pus.

When a stye first appears, you can use the following methods:

1. You can use a clean hot towel for wet compress, 15 minutes each time, 3 times a day.

2. You can use a thread to prick the base of the middle finger on the opposite side of the child's affected eye. That is: when the child's right eye is affected, prick the base of the index finger of the left hand, and if the left eye is affected, prick the right hand. Note that the thread should not be too tight to avoid affecting the blood circulation of the child's fingers.

3. Apply eye ointment or eye drops to the affected area.

4. When the abscess matures, small abscesses will rupture on their own and the pus can be wiped off with sterilized gauze. Large abscesses need to be incised and drained in the hospital, and antibiotic eye drops or eye ointment can be applied after the pus is drained.

If you suffer from a stye, you must seek timely treatment, because the early symptoms are mild and its development can often be controlled through local treatment. The inflammation can subside quickly and heal. The following methods can be used:

1. During treatment, anti-inflammatory eye drops are usually applied during the day, such as rifampicin, tolbridate, tadalafil, etc., once every 3 to 4 hours. Apply anti-inflammatory eye ointment, such as chloramphenicol, erythromycin eye ointment, etc. before going to bed at night.

2. If the child cooperates well, warm water hot compress treatment can also be used. Hot compress can dilate blood vessels, improve local blood circulation, and is very helpful in promoting the absorption of inflammation and shortening the course of the disease.

The specific method is: soak a clean towel in hot water, wring it dry and apply it directly to the skin of the affected eye, 2 to 3 times a day, each time for 20 to 30 minutes. The temperature of the hot towel is about 45 degrees Celsius. Parents can first test the temperature with the back of their hands or their own eyelid skin to see if the child can accept it.

If treatment is not timely, in addition to local redness and swelling, there will be systemic symptoms such as fever and fatigue. Antibiotics should be added, such as amoxicillin, erythromycin, or intramuscular injection of penicillin. For styes with pus heads, the abscess can be opened and drained after it matures.