What should I do if my child has a fever and a lot of eye mucus?

Many parents must have encountered the situation where their children have a fever, and some parents will find some abnormal phenomena in their children when their children have a fever. One of the situations is that children have a lot of eye mucus when they have a fever. Many parents do not understand the cause of this situation, so they can't help but worry that their children have this situation due to other diseases. So, what should we do if children have a fever and a lot of eye mucus?

First, what should you do if your child has a fever and a lot of eye mucus? Wash your hands and use a cotton swab to wipe the eye mucus around the baby's eyes; breastfeeding mothers wash their nipples, squeeze out a few drops, and then squeeze a drop into the baby's eyes (if the situation is not very serious, do it three times a day); after half an hour, cut the nail of the ring finger, wash your hands and massage the baby's nose from the nose wing upwards several times until the inner corner of the eye. This can stimulate the flow of tears and keep the tear ducts unobstructed. (This can be done by massaging multiple times, so mothers should be more diligent.) If there is no improvement after two months of baby's condition, take the baby to a professional hospital for treatment, because the best treatment period for the baby in this case is 2-4 months. The doctor in the hospital will flush the baby's tear ducts according to the baby's condition. If three flushings are ineffective and the baby is too young, flushing can only be done once a week. Then do the sounding. I hope the above experience is useful to mothers.

Second, put two drops of anti-inflammatory eye drops into the child's eyes three times a day on time (be sure to buy the medicine according to the doctor's instructions); after putting the eye drops, gently (press down with a little force) press the child's lacrimal sac (the lacrimal sac is on both sides of the bridge of the nose, below the eyes), push up and down, so that the eye drops gradually flow from the eye frame into the lacrimal sac to achieve the purpose of anti-inflammation; it depends on the severity of the child's condition. According to the symptoms you described, the child is just crying, and the lacrimal sac is not blocked very seriously. The inflammation will disappear within a week.

What should we do if a child has a fever and has a lot of eye mucus? It turns out that when the eyes are infected by bacteria, an inflammatory reaction will occur. On the one hand, the meibomian glands are stimulated, promoting the secretion of oil, causing the amount of oil on the eyelids and in the corners of the eyes to increase than usual; on the other hand, the blood vessels in the eyes dilate, and the white blood cells in the blood gather to kill foreign bacteria. The remains of these killed bacteria and the white blood cells that "gloriously died" in battle are mixed in the eye mucus. As a result, not only does the eye mucus increase, but some of it is yellowish white. Therefore, when you suffer from trachoma, conjunctivitis or other reasons that cause inflammation of the eyelid conjunctiva, the amount of eye mucus will increase.

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