tear duct unblock easy:

BlackBerry25 · Apr 5th, 2009, 21:15 PM

Helena had this for a long time! I just wiped it with a facecloth and it finally went away on its own. It seemed like she had it forever though.

baby_e · Aug 4th, 2009, 14:03 PM

Hi, My Niece Jamie Lee Had A Blocked Tear Duck When She Was Born, She Was Given All Kinds Of Drops And Ointments Which Never Worked, My Sister Told The Doctors She Wanted Jamie Lee Refering To The Eye Hospital, She Soon Got An Appointment, When They Seen Her The Said It Would'nt Fix Itself And That She Had To Have An Operation To Correct It.

She Had The Operation Which Went Extremaly Well, And Now Her Eye Is Perfectly Normal, Nothing Wrong With Her Sight, No More Ointments And Drops, No Sticky Green Eye.

I Think You Should Maybe Tell Your Doctor To Get You Refered, It Was The Best Thing My Sister Done For Jamie Lee.

)))xxx

Odette · Aug 4th, 2009, 15:12 PM

My LO had a blocked tear duct. I spent weeks cleaning his eye with either cooled boiled water or breast milk but this made no difference.

The doctor suggested very gently massaging the area next to his eye (sort of on the edge of the bridge of the nose if that makes sense) close to where the tear duct would be. I did this a couple of times a day for two days and then it cleared up. Magic!!

Linzi · Aug 4th, 2009, 15:40 PM

Seths had a blocked tear duct since he was born and he does get a lot of discharge from it. I think they're meant to clear up by 1 year.

xxx

Katiex · Aug 4th, 2009, 16:41 PM

Jacob has this since he was born too, the eye drops we have been prescribed seemed to work but its coming back. its usually worse when he has been crying.

mari72 · Aug 4th, 2009, 16:57 PM

Blocked tear ducts are incredibly common-its a topic that comes up on this forum alot, the general rule of thumb is to leave them until baby is over a year because
1. the majority-not all-spontaneously resolve on their own
2. they are pretty harmless if you ignore fact that gunk is a bit unsightly
3. nobody wants to perform an operation on a little one unless its necessary, general anaesthetics carry a significant risk
Just keep the eye clean with cooled boiled water/sterile saline etc. No kind of prescribed drops will clear up a blocked duct.

palomito77 · Mar 16th, 2010, 06:35 AM

tear duct unblock easy:
hot water will unblock it, bottled water heated up, as hot as you can, I suffered from it and it took me 24 hours to unblock with hot water

VAinTX · Mar 16th, 2010, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Odette

The doctor suggested very gently massaging the area next to his eye (sort of on the edge of the bridge of the nose if that makes sense) close to where the tear duct would be. I did this a couple of times a day for two days and then it cleared up. Magic!!

Jonathan suffers from a blocked tear duct as well, and this absolutely works! I try to do it every time I feed him, just rubbing in a circle a couple of times, and the goop is gone! If I forget to do it for a while, it comes back... so I can say that this trick really does work!

harmonybunny · Mar 16th, 2010, 12:57 PM

We've been having a nightmare with Muprhy's eye since December so i feel your pain! He's been on 3 different antibiotic drops but nothing has worked. It was swabbed a few weeks ago and i was told to go back to the first antibiotic we were prescribed!!!!! 2 weeks on and it's still no different. The gunk is green and yellow (sorry if TMI) and it sticks tightly shut when he sleeps so he often cries when he wakes because it scares him not being able to see. I guess it's off to the dr again! We know it's a form of conjunctivitis because the swab came back confirming that but what is meant to work just doesn't. Bah.
The one thing to keep doing is bathing it with warm, plain water and only use the cotton swab once across the eye before replacing it if you need to wipe again. Also, if you bf you can always put a little breast milk on it. My midwife suggested this and it does work wonders

xXhayleyXx · Mar 16th, 2010, 13:07 PM

My son who is now 5 had this when he was a week or so old, it got so bad that nothing ie drops, ointments etc worked and became so blocked that he couldnt open his eye properly. I had to insist he was looked at everyday by the doctors who finally agreed he needed to be admitted to the hospital to be delt with. At the age of 4 weeks he was admitted and put on strong IV antibiotics for a week which still did sod all to help. Finally the specialists at the hospital agreed he needed to be given a general aneasectic (sp?) and have the tear duct flushed out. The result within an hour of the op was amazing and his eye was almost back tpo normal. He continued on antibiotics for 4 weeks after. The hospital said it was the worse case they had ever seen and even took photos for training purposes xxx

Apr 5th, 2009, 21:15 PM	#11
BlackBerry25 Mum (Mom) BnB Elite Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 15,180	Helena had this for a long time! I just wiped it with a facecloth and it finally went away on its own. It seemed like she had it forever though.

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Aug 4th, 2009, 14:03 PM	#12
baby_e Mum (Mom) Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1	Hi, My Niece Jamie Lee Had A Blocked Tear Duck When She Was Born, She Was Given All Kinds Of Drops And Ointments Which Never Worked, My Sister Told The Doctors She Wanted Jamie Lee Refering To The Eye Hospital, She Soon Got An Appointment, When They Seen Her The Said It Would'nt Fix Itself And That She Had To Have An Operation To Correct It. She Had The Operation Which Went Extremaly Well, And Now Her Eye Is Perfectly Normal, Nothing Wrong With Her Sight, No More Ointments And Drops, No Sticky Green Eye. I Think You Should Maybe Tell Your Doctor To Get You Refered, It Was The Best Thing My Sister Done For Jamie Lee. )))xxx
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Aug 4th, 2009, 15:12 PM	#13
Odette Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 56	My LO had a blocked tear duct. I spent weeks cleaning his eye with either cooled boiled water or breast milk but this made no difference. The doctor suggested very gently massaging the area next to his eye (sort of on the edge of the bridge of the nose if that makes sense) close to where the tear duct would be. I did this a couple of times a day for two days and then it cleared up. Magic!!

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Aug 4th, 2009, 15:40 PM	#14
Linzi Mum (Mom) BnB Elite Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Leeds UK Posts: 15,769	Seths had a blocked tear duct since he was born and he does get a lot of discharge from it. I think they're meant to clear up by 1 year. xxx

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Aug 4th, 2009, 16:41 PM	#15
Katiex Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire, uk Posts: 892	Jacob has this since he was born too, the eye drops we have been prescribed seemed to work but its coming back. its usually worse when he has been crying.

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Aug 4th, 2009, 16:57 PM	#16
mari72 Pregnant (Expecting) Active BnB Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 479	Blocked tear ducts are incredibly common-its a topic that comes up on this forum alot, the general rule of thumb is to leave them until baby is over a year because 1. the majority-not all-spontaneously resolve on their own 2. they are pretty harmless if you ignore fact that gunk is a bit unsightly 3. nobody wants to perform an operation on a little one unless its necessary, general anaesthetics carry a significant risk Just keep the eye clean with cooled boiled water/sterile saline etc. No kind of prescribed drops will clear up a blocked duct.

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Mar 16th, 2010, 06:35 AM	#17
palomito77 Dad New BnB member Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 1	tear duct unblock easy: tear duct unblock easy: hot water will unblock it, bottled water heated up, as hot as you can, I suffered from it and it took me 24 hours to unblock with hot water

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Mar 16th, 2010, 12:57 PM	#19
harmonybunny Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 471	We've been having a nightmare with Muprhy's eye since December so i feel your pain! He's been on 3 different antibiotic drops but nothing has worked. It was swabbed a few weeks ago and i was told to go back to the first antibiotic we were prescribed!!!!! 2 weeks on and it's still no different. The gunk is green and yellow (sorry if TMI) and it sticks tightly shut when he sleeps so he often cries when he wakes because it scares him not being able to see. I guess it's off to the dr again! We know it's a form of conjunctivitis because the swab came back confirming that but what is meant to work just doesn't. Bah. The one thing to keep doing is bathing it with warm, plain water and only use the cotton swab once across the eye before replacing it if you need to wipe again. Also, if you bf you can always put a little breast milk on it. My midwife suggested this and it does work wonders

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Mar 16th, 2010, 13:07 PM	#20
xXhayleyXx Pregnant (Expecting) BnB Addict Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Devon Posts: 3,385	My son who is now 5 had this when he was a week or so old, it got so bad that nothing ie drops, ointments etc worked and became so blocked that he couldnt open his eye properly. I had to insist he was looked at everyday by the doctors who finally agreed he needed to be admitted to the hospital to be delt with. At the age of 4 weeks he was admitted and put on strong IV antibiotics for a week which still did sod all to help. Finally the specialists at the hospital agreed he needed to be given a general aneasectic (sp?) and have the tear duct flushed out. The result within an hour of the op was amazing and his eye was almost back tpo normal. He continued on antibiotics for 4 weeks after. The hospital said it was the worse case they had ever seen and even took photos for training purposes xxx

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