Symptoms of dacryocystitis in infants

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Neonatal dacryocystitis is a common eye disease, the performance of the baby's eyes are often tearful. There are many concentrated secretions in the baby's eyes, the onset age can be early or late, some have symptoms on the first day after birth, some can appear about a week or a month later. Baby dacryocystitis symptoms now talk to you.

Symptoms of dacryocystitis in infants

Common symptoms: tears, eczema, itchy eyes, red eyes, eye excrement, there are three major symptoms, tears, a large number of eye excrement, and eyelid eczema, that is, there is something infected in the tears, which can stimulate the eyelid skin and produce eczema. One to two weeks after birth, there was a mass and elasticity in the lacrimal sac. There was no acute inflammation such as redness, swelling and tenderness. Occasionally, the symptoms of acute dacryocystitis could be caused. The lacrimal sac and the surrounding skin can be seen lump, elastic, generally no swelling, tenderness and other acute inflammatory performance, occasionally acute dacryocystitis, the lacrimal sac area skin swelling, tenderness, serious and even cause orbital cellulitis and intracranial infection and endanger the life of children!

Congenital dacryocystitis incidence rate is slightly higher, as long as parents pay attention to observe the baby's eyes can be found, there are tears and more eyes, please go to the hospital, the sooner the better the treatment. Gently open the lower eyelid, eye medicine points to the white eyeball (do not point to the black eyeball) (because the corneal nerve is rich, directly point to the cornea, the stimulation is greater, the children will be very uncomfortable), in addition, the eye medicine point should not be too close to the eyes, so as not to hurt the children's eyes, 2 mm away from the children can.

Part of this disease is self-healing, not all of it needs surgery. In addition, conservative treatment can also be carried out at home. One is lacrimal passage massage, which is the massage of lacrimal sac. If the cyst suddenly disappears, it means that the residual membrane has been squeezed out and cured. If conservative treatment for more than 6 months, including repeated massage, is still ineffective, it can be washed and drip antibiotics, and then probe through, most of them can be cured. If there is peridacryocystitis, it should be treated as acute dacryocystitis. The second is eye drops, so there are a small number of children cured, massage five to six times a day, eye drops two to three times a day, this is conservative treatment.

matters needing attention

Neonatal dacryocystitis diet because the newborn can not eat complementary food, so diet without special requirements, pay attention to timely and reasonable feeding, strengthen nutrition can. If breastfeeding, lactating mothers should pay attention to strengthen nutrition, eat more lean meat, chicken soup, fish soup and milk and other high protein foods, and eat more vegetables, fruits and other foods rich in vitamins and cellulose, which can improve children's immunity and benefit children. Take cod liver oil orally.