Ok so DS's eye is red (like the blood vessels are more prominent) and he has some discharge out of both eyes...but no pink on the rim or eyelid and no puffiness. Could this be pink eye or is it something else?
Ok so DS's eye is red (like the blood vessels are more prominent) and he has some discharge out of both eyes...but no pink on the rim or eyelid and no puffiness. Could this be pink eye or is it something else?
Go to the dr. just to be safe. It could be pink eye or just an allergy. DD2 had this a few weeks ago and less than a week of eye drops 3xday cured it.
Annie
WOHM to two wonderful little girls born in April
DD E, 17
DD L, 13,
baby 2, 4-2009 (our Tri-18 baby)
We've had pinkeye a number of times at our house and I found a home remedy that works for us. We use multi purpose contact lens solution. (boric acid in the ingredient list) usually drops a few times a day will take care of the pink eye within a few days.
or
if you are nursing, you can try squirting breast milk into his eye to see if it clears up.
I thought that any inflamation of the eye with goo is considered pink eye, and that the issue of treating it is whether it's bacterial (in which case it can be treated) or viral (in which case you just have to wait it out).
There are three types of pink eye/conjunctivitis: bacterial, viral, and an allergy based version. Nothing can be done for the viral pinkeye except waiting it out.
DS, Summer '07
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