Day 158 - Clear Eyes
Today's First Time Parenting Tip - Use a clean, damp, wet washcloth to clean your baby's eyes from gunk.
Babies often get crust in the corners of their eyes, and it can get pretty bad if they've got a clogged tear duct like our son does. And sometimes, the gunk is dried on there, so a kleenex or cloth diaper isn't going to get it off. Plus you'll probably irritate the skin around his eye. As if the crust wasn't enough!
A good way to clear out dry and wet crust from your baby's eyes is to take a clean washcloth and run it under warm water. Use cloth from the middle of the washcloth (not the corners) and gently hold it over the crusty area. Let it soak a little, and then wipe away from the eye gently with the washcloth. Use a different section of the cloth for the other eye, so you don't transfer any infections.
Parenting, Crust, Irritated, Eye, Infection, Red. Clean
Babies often get crust in the corners of their eyes, and it can get pretty bad if they've got a clogged tear duct like our son does. And sometimes, the gunk is dried on there, so a kleenex or cloth diaper isn't going to get it off. Plus you'll probably irritate the skin around his eye. As if the crust wasn't enough!
A good way to clear out dry and wet crust from your baby's eyes is to take a clean washcloth and run it under warm water. Use cloth from the middle of the washcloth (not the corners) and gently hold it over the crusty area. Let it soak a little, and then wipe away from the eye gently with the washcloth. Use a different section of the cloth for the other eye, so you don't transfer any infections.
Parenting, Crust, Irritated, Eye, Infection, Red. Clean
posted by Jeff Pfaller at 7:26 AM
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