What to do if your baby has allergic conjunctivitis?

Allergic conjunctivitis is a very common eye disease that affects both adults and children, especially babies, because babies often touch their eyes after touching other things, which may bring bacteria into the eyes and cause eye infection. So what should babies do if they have allergic conjunctivitis?

What to do if your baby has allergic conjunctivitis?

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. Other

The gap of the outer conjunctiva is very small, and it is difficult for eye drops to stay. In addition, the eyelids keep blinking, so the eye drops can only stay for a short time. Therefore, you must drop eye drops frequently according to the doctor's instructions, and do not reduce it without authorization.

Only then can the eye drops work. The same applies to applying ointment. In order to avoid affecting the baby's vision, eye ointment is usually applied before going to bed.

Tip: If the baby has a history of allergic conjunctivitis, parents need to pay special attention, because the baby is still young. As long as the baby is treated actively and some anti-allergic eye drops are used to relieve the symptoms, I believe he will get better soon. If the mother finds that the baby often rubs his eyes, it is best to seek medical attention in time.