Since the day DS was born he has had drainage from both of his eyes, the left eye finally stopped about a month ago but his right eye is still draining really bad, usually in the morning he can't even open his eye because there is so much gunk, and the lid is always swollen from him rubbing it so much, we've been doing lacrimal eye massages and they're not helping, he has his 6 month appointment in 2 weeks and his pedi is going to refer him to a pediatric opthamologist and depending on what they think DS may have surgery to get the tear duct cleaned out. Anyone going through this or have any experience? I know it's a minor surgery and but it still makes me nervous. : /
Re: Blocked Tear Duct
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Have you seen any improvement? I would probably talk to the opthamologist and get their opinion. Tough call. It's never easy to see our little ones go through anything, no matter how minor!
DD was born with blocked ducts. For the very first couple of weeks her eyes would get pretty gunky, but one of them opened up really quickly. The other one remained blocked, but we think it was probably open a little bit. It didn't keep getting gunky, but would water pretty frequently.
We were facing the referral at 6mo also, but thankfully just in the last couple of weeks the other duct seems to have opened as well. I don't think it's an issue anymore.
My niece (who is 2 months older than DD) basically had the same scenario that we did. She was referred to the eye doctor at 6mo and they felt that the eye that was still affected was becoming lazy because she was constantly looking through blurred vision due to the watery eye. She's going to have the procedure to open it up here very soon. The thing is, I guess there's a good chance that it won't fix the problem. I really don't know about it though because thankfully we're not going to have to cross that bridge. I would just be sure to weigh pros and cons. From what I understand the ducts typically open on their own by 1yr if not sooner.
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