How to deal with yellow eye mucus in newborns

Newborns are the apple of their parents’ eyes. If a newborn develops a disease, parents will certainly be very worried. Therefore, we recommend that parents learn more about common neonatal diseases so that they will know how to deal with any abnormal conditions in their newborns. Newborns are prone to yellow eye mucus. So what causes the appearance of yellow eye mucus? How can we help newborns deal with these yellow eye boogers?

Eye discharge is a mild infection of the eye. One is that it may be due to contact with vaginal secretions containing bacteria during delivery, the contaminated hands of the midwife, or the unclean supplies that the baby comes into contact with after delivery, which may cause the child's conjunctiva to become inflamed, resulting in excessive and sticky eye mucus in the baby. Secondly, some children's nasolacrimal ducts are blocked by epithelial cell residues or occluded by the nasolacrimal duct mucosa, causing tears and secretions in the tear duct to accumulate in the lacrimal sac and cause dacryocystitis. Such children have a cystic tumor in the lacrimal sac with a slightly bluish surface. If you gently press the lacrimal sac on the inside of the eye, mucous or mucous secretions will overflow and the tumor will disappear.

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For children with a lot of eye mucus and conjunctival congestion, new mothers can use cotton wool dipped in warm water to clean the baby's eyes twice a day, gently wiping from the inner corner of the eye to the outer corner of the eye, and use a piece of cotton wool for each eye.

Medical advice: Two days after the baby is born, if his eyelashes stick together after waking up, or there is pus in the inner corner of the eye, or the nasolacrimal duct is blocked or dacryocystitis occurs, see a doctor as soon as possible.

Excessive eye mucus in newborns affects their vision. Excessive eye mucus in newborns should not be ignored. It may lead to diseases such as congenital dacryocystitis in newborns. If not treated in time, it will affect the visual development of newborns. Most eye mucus is caused by bacteria invading the lacrimal sac, multiplying and festering in the lacrimal sac. The pus fills the entire lacrimal sac and cannot be excreted downward, so it can only flow upward along the lacrimal sac and lacrimal canaliculus into the eye. If not treated early, keratitis may occur, and the cornea may turn from black to white to form white spots, which will affect the baby's vision development.

Medical experts remind that after the baby is born, special attention should be paid to observe the amount of eye mucus in the baby. If there is still eye mucus after one week, you should go to an ophthalmology hospital for treatment as soon as possible. At the same time, the high temperatures in summer are the season when dacryocystitis is prevalent, which causes a lot of eye mucus in newborns, so young parents should pay attention to it.

If a baby has a lot of eye mucus, it is because of “heat”. There are many infants and young children aged 2-6 months who show an increase in eye mucus shortly after birth. In severe cases, the secretions even stick to the eyelashes, making it impossible for the infants and young children to open their eyelids and cry incessantly. When encountering this situation, parents often think that the mother of the baby has eaten "heaty" food and caused "heat" in the baby through breastfeeding, so they keep making heat-clearing and fire-reducing herbal tea or Chinese medicine such as berberine water and summer cypress water for the child. The result was contrary to expectations. The eye secretions increased, and some were even accompanied by purulent secretions. Finally, I had no choice but to go to the hospital.

In the above article, we introduced something that parents are very concerned about, that is, the physical health of newborns. Some newborns are prone to yellow eye mucus. The above article analyzes in detail the causes and treatment methods of yellow eye mucus in newborns.