How to care for a child with red eyes

The article was consulted professionally by Dr. Nguyen Thi Bich Ty – Department of Medical Examination and Internal Medicine – Share99 Nha Trang International Health Hub

Red eye pain in children is benign but not without dangerous complications. Some possible complications of red eye pain are: Fibrous keratitis, spot keratitis, deep keratitis, purulent inflammation of the rye,… Even more dangerous can cause corneal scarring, impaired vision. So how does a baby with red eyes care properly?

1. How to care for a child with red eye pain

Children with red eye pain often cry, so eye care measures are needed to make them more pleasant. Parents are often confused about what a child with red eye pain should do. Here are ways to make your baby's eyes more pleasant with red eye pain.

Small eyes with physiological saline

When a child has red eye pain, parents can shrink their eyes with physiological saline (NaCl 0.9%) about 5-7 times a day. In addition, when the child is sick, parents or relatives in the house also need to be small 3-5 times a day to prevent red eye pain from spreading.

Note: Each member separately uses a physiological saline bottle, not shared even those without the disease.

Strengthen your child's resistance

Viral diseases such as red eye pain in children, typhal fever … there are no special medications. All therapeutic drugs only alleviate the discomfort that the disease causes. The best treatment and prevention is to strengthen the child's resistance. When the body's weak resistance will be tired, sluggishness facilitates the virus to thrive.

  • Mothers should feed their babies plenty of vegetables and fruits to improve their resistance.
  • For breastfeeding babies, when they have red eyes or viral diseases, they need to breastfeed as much as possible.
  • In addition, if the baby is in breastfeeding, she should eat a lot of foods to increase her resistance. Thereby indirectly increasing the resistance of the baby through breast milk.

How to clean your child's eyes daily

Step 1: Rinse your hands with soap before cleaning your child's eyes

Step 2: Prepare physiological saline, 2 sterile gauze used for 2 eyes

Step 3: Use physiological saline to wet sterile gauze, wipe gently from head to tail of eyes.

Every day I can clean my eyes 3 times in the evening after waking up. After that, the mother wipes the baby's face with a warm towel. Note, the mother needs to give the baby a separate towel and towel after use needs to be washed and dried.

Wash your hands before eating, when using the toilet, or in contact with items

Wash your hands with soap before cleaning your child's eyes

2. What should a child with red eyes eat and what to fast?

2.1 What should a child with red eyes eat?

When the child has red eyes, the mother supplements the baby with the following foods:

Vitamin C

Vitamin C supplements for babies with red eye pain. Vitamin C helps strengthen resistance, soothe burning sensations when suffering from red eye pain. Vitamin C is abundant in oranges, strawberries and almonds. However, be aware to feed your baby only the necessary amount of vitamin C for the body daily, not to overdo it.

Vitamin A, B12, D supplements

Vitamin A, B12, D supplements are also good for babies with red eyes such as broccoli, spinach,… Also those foods containing beta-carotene such as pumpkin, papaya,… it's also good for your baby. Bera-carotene will be converted into vitamin A when entering the young body, helping to brighten the eyes, strengthening resistance to prevent the disease from developing.

Lean meat, chicken egg yolk, liver are all vitamin supplements for the eyes.

If the baby does not breastfeed, give him plenty of water, and the baby is breastfeeding, then breastfeed as much as possible.

Nutrition is an important part of the body. Proper supplementation of nutrients is not only good for the development of the body, but also helps to increase resistance, fight diseases.

2.2 What do red-eyed children fast?

When your child has red eyes, most parents wonder what to feed them so they can recover quickly. According to specialists, in addition to taking care of the baby's eye hygiene, the diet also helps the baby quickly recover from the disease and limit discomfort.

Spicy, hot

According to oriental medicine, red eye pain is caused by heat intervention, so it is necessary to avoid spicy items such as chili, garlic, onions … These foods will make the eyes hotter, causing discomfort to the baby.

Fishy substances

Fishy foods such as shrimp and fish… will facilitate the virus to grow stronger, making the disease more severe.

Spinach

Spinach is a vegetable that abstains from red-eyed people. Plastics in vegetables will make the disease more unpleasant

Animal fat

In animal fat there is a lot of fat that is not good for the baby's condition when he is sick. When the child is suffering from red eye pain, plant oil should be used instead.

Fried dishes

Do not feed children with red eyes hot spicy, greasy foods

3. How to prevent red eye pain in a child

Red eye pain is benign but will affect the learning and living process. Also if the disease does not cure for a long time can cause dangerous complications, affecting vision. Therefore, the prevention of red eye pain is extremely important.

The patient is still fully capable of spreading the disease before 2 3 days at the onsle of the disease and after 1 week of healing. The best way to prevent the disease is to take hygiene and isolation measures with the sick person.

When there is no epidemic

  • Regularly wash your baby's hands, ensuring personal hygiene.
  • Use personal items such as face towels, towels …
  • Wash towels with soap, dry in the sun daily.
  • Do not use your hands to fulfold your eyes.
  • Clean your baby's toys

When there is a red eye epidemic

In addition to the full implementation of the above measures, the following should be done further:

  • Wash your hands thoroughly with soap or antiseptic solution after going to the bathroom and before eating
  • Use physiological saline to wash your eyes at least 1 day 3 times
  • Do not share personal items with people with eye pain
  • Limit contact with people with eye pain.
  • Less crowded places such as hospitals, shopping centers
  • Limit swimming, do not use polluted water sources.
  • Limit your baby's access to sun or polluted air

Red eye pain in general and red eye pain in children in particular are contagious diseases. When sick, it is best for parents to immediately go to the hospital eye department for timely examination and treatment, avoiding unfortunate complications.

Currently, Share99 is one of the few hospitals with a full range of pediatric specialties, can have a general examination in combination with a nutritionist to help build a separate menu for babies, neurological examinations, mental problems, reflexes. In particular, Share99 has strengths in motor examination with the coordination of a rehabilitation center for children with autism – cerebral palsy.

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