What should I do if my newborn has a lot of mucus in one eye?

I believe everyone knows what eye boogers are. Eye boogers not only appear on adults but also on newborns. Parents must not ignore eye boogers in newborns' eyes, because eye boogers in newborns' eyes often mean that there is a problem with the newborn's body. Some newborns are prone to having a lot of eye boogers in one eye. So what exactly causes this situation and how should we deal with this symptom?

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.

The most common manifestation is that shortly after she was born, her family found that she had excessive tears and eye mucus, and thought it was due to "heat". They gave her herbal tea for clearing heat and purging fire for nearly two months. As a result, not only did the eye symptoms not improve, but the eye secretions were even more than before. The increased secretions caused adhesions, and the child could not open her eyes. After examination by a doctor, it was diagnosed as "infantile dacryocystitis". After local medication removal, flushing and probing, the above symptoms completely disappeared and the child finally opened his bright eyes. His parents said guiltily that if they had come to the hospital earlier, the child would not have suffered so much.

Congenital dacryocystitis is more common in infants, and is manifested by unilateral or bilateral epiphora that gradually turns into purulent secretions, and purulent secretions reflux when the lacrimal sac area is compressed. The reasons are mostly due to the blockage of the nasolacrimal duct at the lower end of the nasal cavity, and some are caused by the incomplete development of the duct, forming wrinkles, valves or mucosal diverticula. Due to nasolacrimal duct atresia and secretion retention, chronic dacryocystitis often develops.

In the above article, we introduced what eye boogers are. We know that eye boogers may appear in newborns. The above article gives us a detailed introduction to the reasons and treatment methods for excessive eye boogers in one eye. We hope that the information introduced above can bring some help to everyone.