As you know, in the first two or three months of life, babies do not have tears. Even when they cry, there are no tears. The reason for this is the unformed lacrimal fluid and tear duct. However, even such a crumb can discharge fluid from the eyes, which, as a rule, is a sign of the disease. Especially if a yellowish sticky liquid is visible in the corners of the eye. When the eye is peeling in the baby, redness and swelling are observed, it is necessary to consult a doctor.
Why does the baby's eye water?
Most often, the infant has a single eye, while the other remains perfectly normal. The reasons for the so-called "sour" peephole are as follows:
- tear-and-nose channel is blocked;
- the child suffers from allergies (there are other signs of an atypical reaction to one or another allergen);
- the baby's organism was attacked by bacteria or viruses;
- the eye is injured;
- the kid is ill with measles, chickenpox or viral conjunctivitis;
- manifested eczema (with this disease the skin around the eye dries up and peels off).
If a complex of symptoms is observed, namely, the infants have watery eyes, he sneezes, then we can talk about the course of the flu or acute respiratory viral disease. In this case, lacrimation is a side effect and does not require special treatment, since it passes with the underlying disease.
Sometimes the sourness of the eye is based on an innate narrowing of the tear duct, leading to stagnation of the fluid and the formation of pus.
What if the baby has watery eyes?
Treatment of sour eyes in infants is prescribed exclusively by a doctor. Do not self-medicate. With allergy prescribed antihistamines, eliminating the cause of the disease. A similar approach is used in the bacterial-viral etiology of the disease, when it is the cause, not the consequence, that is being treated. With a congenital narrowing of the lacrimal canal, a massage is performed with simultaneous instillation of antimicrobial agents.