pinkeye

[sadie]

dd, seven mo, caught pinkeye last night. :( I took her into the doctor, who explained to me that while pinkeye is viral, it can trigger a bacterial infection, so dd must take antibiotic eye drops.

What? :shrug I don't get it. If it's viral, and no bacterial infection has occured yet, then why should she be in antibiotics? And lets say a bacterial infection has already set in, along with a viral? Isn't there anything else I could do first, besides give her antibiotics right away?

I came home and put breastmilk in dd's eyes, and again a few hours later, and it seems to have helped. I am planning on putting a moist chamomile teabag on her eye later. Do I still need to give her antibiotics?

[boonpnutsmom]

I would not give her the antibiotics, in my experience the BM works the best!!!

[flowermama]

yes, I've heard BM is great for pink eye. I wouldn't give the antibiotics either.

:hug

[Charlie U]

I wouldn't do the anti b's either. Hope her pink eye clears up soon.

[MarynMunchkins]

Bm works MUCH better than the eyedrops. It's taken 3 days to clear with antibiotics, and less than 24 hours with bm. :)

[sadie]

So I'm not at risk of seriously hurting dd if I don't do the antibiotic? The doctor said if we don't "aggressively" treat the pinkeye, it will become a chronic condition.

It doesn't make sense to me. Plus, if it doesn't go away by Thursday, I can decide to use the prescription then, right? I just feel like I should first try something other than antibiotics, especially if it's a viral infection.

ETA thank you so much ladies! :grouphug :ty I don't know what I'd do without you.

[MarynMunchkins]

If you don't treat the pinkeye with anything, it could be chronic. But you ARE treating it - with bm. :)

[snlmama]

I'd give it 4-5 days, before using the antibiotic. Bm is probably better than the antibiotic, but my ds has had pinkeye that cleared up in a few days w/o using anything. If it gets worse or lasts more than a few days, THEN it may be bacterial and you should use the antibiotic eyedrops. Yes, you can start them later. :)

[lmgeenw]

Breastmilk has cleared up pinkeye for us several times. A word of warning though... I got lazy and instead of expressing my milk in a cup and squirting it in my son's eye with a syringe, I squirted it directly from my breast. Well, my son didn't appreciate it very much and it lead to a small nursing strike. :eek You might want to use a dropper or syringe.

[cobluegirl]

I concure with what everyone else stated.

[chelsea]

So how did it work? Do tell!

[lmgeenw]

So how did it work? Do tell!


Sorry if this is too late. I havesn't followed the post for a few days. But for future reference... I hand-expressed my milk into a baby food jar and put it in my child's eye with an eye dropper every two hours or so. Not sure where I got the two hours. i think I read it somewhere.