The eyes have it...
A lot of my friends have mentioned that their kids often have a 'thing' they are prone to - coughs, rashes, runny noses, ear infections. With Theo, it seems to be his eyes. From the moment he was born he's had trouble with them. Nothing serious, just soreness and gunkiness. If he gets a cold, it always affects his eyes. His eyelids, particularly his right one, is often red and sore looking. He had eyedrops as a newborn to clear up a persistently sticky eye, and then again at the end of last year for the same reason. A few weeks ago he caught conjunctivitis and then last week his eyelids became very sore and inflammed, first the right one then the left one. I washed them every night and morning, as the doctor keeps telling me to do, and they looked like they might be okay, but then a week later it suddenly got worse, so I had to use antibiotics yet again - although it did clear up almost over night once I started using them.
He's got a cold again and once again his right eye is weepy. I'm generally quite reluctant to use antibiotics if I don't need to and as far as I can tell, with the stickiness, if it happens when he has a cold, it's just due to general congestion and maybe to the cold virus getting into the eyes and will usually clear up once the cold has gone. But the gammy eyelids needed some help!
He's got a cold again and once again his right eye is weepy. I'm generally quite reluctant to use antibiotics if I don't need to and as far as I can tell, with the stickiness, if it happens when he has a cold, it's just due to general congestion and maybe to the cold virus getting into the eyes and will usually clear up once the cold has gone. But the gammy eyelids needed some help!
posted by solveig at
8:10 pm
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wow, he looks miserable there.
Sam's speech therapist told me the other day that having a lot of milk and dairy products can exacerbate the amount of mucus kids produce when they've got a cold. Wonder if that would also affect his eyes too?
That is interesting about the dairy products - Theo does have a fair amount of yoghurt every day and cheese quite often, as well as milk in his porridge in the morning.
How is Sam doing? x
yes, I hadn't heard that before, but Sam drinks milk like its going out of fashion and his runny nose lasts for ages after his colds - so maybe there's something in it.
He's making slow progress with his talking - he's had an informal diagnosis of dyspraxia, so its probably something he'll struggle with all his life :( Seeing the paediatrician later in the month, so might know a bit more after that.
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