Can two year old baby do lacrimal passage flush

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Children's lacrimal passage is very easy to appear the phenomenon of skin color, a friend's baby is two years old, looking at the red eyes also often say eye pain, and explain to you whether two-year-old baby can wash the lacrimal passage.

Can two year old baby do lacrimal passage flush

First of all, lacrimal duct irrigation is a necessary means of diagnosis and treatment for congenital lacrimal duct obstruction and neonatal dacryocystitis. Our children's Hospital Department of Ophthalmology every year for thousands of such "tears" baby do lacrimal irrigation, the smallest only a few days after birth. Many parents are reluctant to do early lacrimal passage flushing and lacrimal passage dredging surgery for their baby because they love their baby and are afraid of suffering. In fact, this idea is wrong.

Secondly, the timing of treatment is delayed, which aggravates the inflammation and obstruction of the lacrimal passage. When the child is very old, the lacrimal passage flushing and dredging operation is performed again, and the effect is not ideal. Some children even have repeated lacrimal passage operation for many times, and the child's pain is not said. In the end, the lacrimal passage function can not return to normal. The child's eyes are very delicate, do not wash the child's tears very vigorously, it is easy to make the child's condition worse.

Finally, the ophthalmology department of children's hospital has a special small cover for fixing the body of children and a small head support for fixing the head of children, which can not only brake, but also do no harm to the body of children. The baby's washing needle is the thinnest one used in ophthalmology. At the same time, the head of the needle is round and blunt, which can smoothly enter the baby's delicate lacrimal passage without damaging the baby's tender lacrimal passage. Before washing the lacrimal passage, we will drop topical anesthetics on the child's lacrimal dots. In fact, the child will not feel pain.

matters needing attention

Some parents will worry that the child's lacrimal passage flushing will be very painful, and then want to wait for a little bigger in the treatment. In fact, every hospital has professional treatment equipment, which will try to minimize the pain, so we must treat it in time. Don't eat stimulating food, often participate in physical exercise, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, and keep in a good mood.