Can I buy some drops from the Pharmacy for my kids red eye and watering in an emergency. ?

No.

Absolutely No.

You are playing with danger.

The commonest causes of Red eyes and watering are Bacterial Infection or  Allergic Conjunctivitis or mild allergy or foreign body in eye or injury or  Stye or Chalazion ……. Or even need for glasses.

There are the common causes. There could be hundreds of uncommon causes.

The young boy at the Pharmacy counter did not spend 5 years in a Medical School learning about the above conditions and their treatment.

The treatment of each is vastly different and wrong treatment could cause worsening and prolonging your kids condition.

The Pharmacy for business reasons will give you the drops which give them best profit margins.

And as a Kids Eye Doctor we have noticed absolutely wrong drops and harmful drops being given.

Also do not use any old drops that are lying around in your house.

The reasons are the same as above.

See a Kids Eye Doctor.

What is NLD obstruction, that my 2 month old child has ?

Tears are continuously produced in our eyes.

For lubrication and vital health of the eyes.

There has to be some passage to take away these tears.

That passage is called NLD.

Nasolacrimal  duct.

There is a tube connecting the nose side of the eye with the nose.

Your tears travel through this tube, into nose, then into your throat and eventually your stomach.

In very young babies, sometimes (in a very small percentage) this passage is blocked or rather has not opened up yet.

You will notice continuous redness in the eyes of the baby and watering.

In majority of such babies the passage will eventually open up.

No major treatment or surgery will be necessary.

But you have to show your Kids Eye Doctor.

The doctor will suggest some drops and a nose massage. The block will eventually open up in about a month or two.

If it doesn’t we are looking at a minor surgery or a major.

But this is required only in a very minor percentage.

See the Kids Eye Doctor immediately.

Is it necessary to test the eyes of “Special Children” ?

Yes ……. Absolutely yes.

Special  Children have the same Eye Problems, Errors and needs as enumerated in the other blog topics.

But they are different in 2 ways.

1.    They are unable to recognize their errors or express them. Hence it takes detailed and special exminations to check them.

2.    The Special Children are usually born with various Syndromes. The Eye is involved in multiple ways in majority of those syndromes. So it takes special examination to specifically look for those errors and to treat them regularly or in a planned fashion.

So a detailed, regular, quarterly examination of the Special Children is absolutely necessary.

50 % of the patients at Kids Eye Clinic are Special Children, since we are trained specialists.

Please do inform us while taking an appointment if your child is a Special Child. That way we can plan to give them more time