Nursing methods for children with conjunctivitis

When it comes to conjunctivitis, I believe everyone must be familiar with it. It is a common eye disease. Children are generally more prone to it because conjunctivitis is easily contagious. Children are especially playful and usually gather together to play. They are a high-risk group for conjunctivitis. Therefore, parents must pay attention to care when their children suffer from conjunctivitis to prevent recurrence of the disease. Let's take a look at the care methods for children's conjunctivitis.

1. Avoid rubbing your eyes with your hands: When conjunctivitis causes itching and pain, children should be reminded not to rub their eyes with their hands, because rubbing the eyes can easily bring bacteria or viruses on the hands into the eyeball and aggravate the infection, and it is also easy to transfer bacteria in the eyes to the hands and infect others.

2. Avoid infecting others: Children often live and study in a group environment, and it is difficult to avoid contact between children. Eye secretions are highly contagious, so it is best not to go out when suffering from infectious conjunctivitis. Objects that have been touched should be disinfected to prevent infection to others.

3. Rinse the eyes: When the child has a lot of eye secretions, rinse with normal saline, but it must be done under the guidance of a doctor. Wipe the eyelid margin with a sterilized cotton swab before rinsing. The secretions need to be wiped off before applying eye drops each time to improve the efficacy.

4. Do not cover the affected eye: Children with conjunctivitis will have irritation symptoms such as photophobia and tearing. They can wear sunshade glasses when going out to reduce irritation, but should avoid covering the affected eye. Because covering it will prevent secretions from being discharged, and at the same time increase the local temperature and humidity of the conjunctival sac, it is conducive to the reproduction of bacteria or viruses and aggravates the condition.

Through the above care methods during the treatment of conjunctivitis, I believe everyone knows how to care for children. It should be noted that if the care is inappropriate, it is easy to cause repeated attacks, so parents must take good care of their children, maintain their children’s personal hygiene in daily life, wash their hands frequently, and do not let children rub their eyes with their hands, so as to effectively avoid it.