Children have a lot of eye mucus

Many mothers will find that when taking care of their babies, there is suddenly more eye mucus in their babies' eyes. At this time, the mothers will think that it is caused by the baby's liver fire, so they will let the children eat more foods that have the effect of removing liver fire, hoping to help the children solve the problem of excessive eye mucus. In fact, this is not the correct approach. You should know that there are many factors that cause children to have excessive eye mucus.

Although excessive liver fire is a factor that causes excessive eye mucus in children, it is very rare for children to have excessive eye mucus due to this condition. The most common causes are eye diseases such as neonatal dacryocystitis, gonococcal pyokuroma, corneal ulcers, etc.

There are two common reasons why children have a lot of eye mucus:

(1) Infection factors: intrauterine infection of the newborn or contact with vaginal secretions containing bacteria during delivery, contaminated hands of the midwife, or unclean supplies that the newborn comes into contact with after birth. If the caregiver's hands, the child's own hands, or a towel that is not thoroughly disinfected is used to wipe the child's eyes, it will cause inflammation of the child's conjunctiva, resulting in excessive and sticky eye mucus.

(2) Non-infectious factors: In some children, the nasolacrimal duct is blocked by epithelial cell residues or the nasolacrimal duct mucosa is blocked, causing tears and secretions in the tear duct to be retained in the lacrimal sac and causing dacryocystitis. Such children have a cystic tumor in the lacrimal sac with a slightly bluish surface. If the lacrimal sac on the inner side of the eye is gently pressed, mucous or mucopurulent secretions can be seen overflowing from the tear point at the lower edge of the inner corner of the eye, and the tumor disappears.

Solution:

The indoor temperature and humidity are moderate. Open the windows for ventilation twice a day for 20 minutes each time to ensure fresh indoor air.

Do a good job of disinfecting the items used by children and ensure that all their supplies are clean and hygienic.

For children with a lot of eye mucus and conjunctival congestion, you can use normal saline to clean the eyes, and then use 1% erythromycin eye drops or 0.25% chloramphenicol eye drops three times a day during the day, and use chloramphenicol eye ointment at night.

For children with nasolacrimal duct obstruction or dacryocystitis, ask a professional doctor to flush the tear duct, then use antibiotic eye drops 6 times a day, take oral antibiotics, and massage the lacrimal sac 3 times a day for treatment.

Through the introduction in this article, I believe you must have understood the reasons why children have a lot of eye mucus and how to deal with it. I would like to remind all mothers that when children have a lot of eye mucus, you must first find out the cause of the situation, and then deal with it in a targeted manner. Only in this way can you completely solve the problem of children having a lot of eye mucus.