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
Baby Help Line
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. Her cold should only last about 7-10 days.

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.

Liz

Mar 28, 2009
treatment for 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 comming 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 its easy to do and keep changing the cloth wash your hands every time u 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 @ her then plop right inn that worked well you will miss but u will get better @ it.

Don't dispare ,her eye with the milk will get all crusty but thats ok when its 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 its a bit off work but darn it works .And for thrush if your baby gets this forget the Doctor meds been there done that , just use tincture of violet it will be gone in 3 to for days she or he will have a dark purple mouth but it goes away. just swab it whith a q tip all in her cheeks and on the tougue were most of the problem is and you can get this stuff @ most health food stores.hope this helps you.bye bye.

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