Why do children have red eyes?

Many times, we don’t know why our children suddenly have red eyes. Because we don’t understand the cause of this symptom, many mothers don’t know how to help their children treat and improve the symptoms. In fact, there are many reasons for children’s red eyes. Let’s take a look at the reason why the baby’s eyes turn red. I hope the following content can be helpful to everyone.

main reason:

There are red spots the size of half a grain of rice on the whites of the baby's eyes. This is often caused by subconjunctival hemorrhage in the baby. It may be caused by the rupture of capillaries in the conjunctiva due to dry weather and the baby's coughing or exerting force. If the red spots do not continue to expand, no special treatment is required and the red spots can be absorbed by themselves.

Because most clinical skin diseases have similar manifestations and are difficult to differentiate, it is best for you to go to the hospital for a check-up in person to avoid misdiagnosis. It will not delay treatment. If there is anything you don't understand, you can always communicate with us. Since we don't know much about your condition, you can consult our expert hotline and describe your condition in detail. We will decide how and what medicine to use based on your clinical manifestations and characteristics of the disease. This way, the treatment will be targeted and effective. In addition, you must take the medicine consistently and not just stop taking it after it has relieved the symptoms for a period of time. This is also the main reason why it cannot be cured in the long term.

This is conjunctivitis. It is a common disease in ophthalmology. Because most of the conjunctiva is in direct contact with the outside world. Therefore, it is easy to be infected by the surrounding environment. But most of them are viruses. Acute viral conjunctivitis. You can use cortisone eye drops and ribavirin eye drops alternately to alleviate the condition. Bacterial conjunctivitis. You need to use antibiotic lotion or ointment. Such as chloramphenicol eye drops or erythromycin eye ointment. If severe, give antibiotics by mouth or injection. Such as amoxicillin and penicillin.

If a child's eyes suddenly become red within a short period of time, it may be caused by keratitis. If it is keratitis, it will easily cause the whites of the eyes to become red. This is mainly caused by inflammation. Therefore, you must pay attention to not let your children scratch their eyes. This will easily aggravate the problem of keratitis. In addition, you need to pay attention to properly care for your child with some anti-inflammatory eye ointments, such as erythromycin eye ointment.

There are many reasons for children's red eyes, so when a child has red eyes, it is necessary to check the cause of the problem in time, and then give timely symptomatic treatment. If it is an inflammatory infection, then the child needs to be given anti-inflammatory drugs in time to improve the symptoms of the disease.