2 Month Old, Pink Eye?

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2 Month Old, Pink Eye?

My daughter has been rubbing her left eye alot lately and now it waters and she gets clod/sleep in her eye all the time. Only that eye. She also has a runny nose and a cough to match; kinda like she has a cold.

Should I take her to the hospital or should I not worry about it. Her eye also turned red for a couple of hours but went away n shes still rubbing her eye and it has stopped watery.

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2 Month Old, Pink Eye?

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Feb 25, 2009

Pink Eye Or A Cold
by: Baby Help Line

I believe she has a cold and it is irritating her eye. If it was pink eye, she would have drainage coming from her eye and it would stay red. She would also be irritable when she rubbed her eye because it feels similar to having sand in your eye.

Pink eye is a viral or bacterial infection to the eye and will not be associated with cough and a runny nose, although of course they can come at the same time.

But since the redness comes and goes and only when she rubs her eye, I really do believe the redness is due to the cold and the rubbing rather than to a pink eye infection. If the redness doesn't disappear or the eye becomes full of pus, the she might have developed conjunctivitis (pink eye) due to spreading virus to her eye.

Regarding her cold, it is not a reason to visit the doctor, unless it doesn't go away within 7-10 days, or if she gets a very high fever, painful deep cough or some other indication of more severe illness.

If she continues to have a runny nose, cold in her eye and a cough after 10 days then you need to see your pediatrician because she may have a sinus infection, which would require an antibiotic. If she starts to run a rectal temperature of 100.4 or higher than take her to the doctor to be checked out.

If you feel something is just not right then follow your instinct and take her to your pediatrician. I hope she starts to feel better.

Paula

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Mar 28, 2009

Breast Milk To Treat Pink Eye
by: Anonymous

Well believe it or not, breast milk drops for pink eye, unreal how good this works. Our little girl @ the time was about 1 1\2 months old we tried all the Doctor meds; poor thing nothing worked. Yellow pus was steady coming out of her eye, so we read this on the net and gave it a shot. WOW a drop every 4 hours. Sometimes we skipped because she was getting more irritated for trying to get her eye open but it really works cleared up in about 5 days we also had to gently push the pus out. It is easy to do and keep changing the cloth. Wash your hands every time you touch her eye.

Pink eye spreads easy. We got good @ it we found the best way was to use a seringe with the needle taken off and draw up a bit of milk and then just push out a drop while she had her eye open. Got my wife to talk to her from above her head so she would look up at her then plop right in. That worked well. You will miss but you will get better at it.

Don't dispare if her eye with the milk will get all crusty but that's ok. When it is time for the next treatment, just wipe it off with a warm cloth and again try to push the pus out then clean it up and add the milk again.

And for baby thrush if your baby gets this, forget the Doctor meds, just use tincture of genetian violet. It will be gone in 3 to four days. She or he will have a dark purple mouth but it goes away. Just swab it with a q tip all in her cheeks and on the tougue were most of the problem is.You can get this stuff @ most health food stores.

Hope this helps you

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