Hi everyone welcome back to my videos um this is a bit of a last-minute video so i apologise if it
seems a bit all over the place so I thought I'd give you a quick update on how we're doing and
also explain the little problem we have with Aidan's eyes at the moment and I'm gonna have a
little extension video onto this one at the end just to let you know how we're dealing with it
so as I mentioned earlier we have a little bit of an issue with eye and i'll just put
up a photo very quickly of a close-up of his um eyes just so you can see what we're dealing with
but as you can see he's got a sort of red rash that is
coming from the corner of his eye stemming down and then a little bit on his eyelid as well
as far as i'm aware it doesn't seem to be bothering him too much he does
rub his eye um from time to time but you never know whether that's because of eye irritation or
whether it's because of he's tired but i thought i'd mention it because i thought i'd share it
with you so in case anyone else is going through similar issues with their little ones but we've
ruled out the big eye things so conjunctivitis was the obvious one but he's not getting a sticky eye
there's no discharge with it as far as we can see or as far as we can tell it's not pink eye because
the actual um eyeball itself isn't pink or red or inflamed or anything like that
as i said he doesn't seem too bothered about it my my top thing at the beginning was allergies and i
thought he might be allergic to something because sometimes that can make your eyes quite inflamed
if there's a allergen that he's been affected by and this is going back to whether i thought he
might have had a dairy allergy but i don't think it is that because I was off dairy for a couple
of weeks a few weeks ago and it didn't make any difference at all because I thought that might be
aggravating his tummy and causing a bit of reflux and it made no difference to his eye then so this
has been going on for about a month on and off it would get better and then it would suddenly get
worse and I spoke to the health visitor about it last week and she said that it could be a blocked
tear duct in the eye so and it's happening to both eyes and it tends to one would be worse and then
go down and the other one will flare up and then go down and there's some days you wouldn't tell
there's an issue at all so she's explained to me that the best way of dealing with this would be
massage and to gently massage the area and i've posted a little video on the end of this video
just to say how we're going to do that and then she still suggested to go to the GP and take a
swab of the eye just to make sure it's not an infection of any kind you can get conjunctivitis
that's both viral and bacterial there's two different types so it's better to know which
one is if it is conjunctivitis so we're going to see the doctor anyway just to make sure um
but it looks like from my research that it is a block tear duct which apparently is very common so
and it doesn't really hurt them in any way really um i think the risk is if it doesn't clear up then
it could get infected um because obviously any kind of liquid that gathers around the eye can
then congeal and therefore um get worse and then get infected so we are still going to see the
doctor about it just in case um but otherwise i thought i'd just give you a quick update on
what we're dealing with hi everyone um so this is Aidan. Aidan is 15 weeks old
and i don't know if the camera can pick it up very well but you can see some red dots
um around his eye which I believe are blocked tear ducts so what i'm going to show you today
is a simple way of massaging it and we've been doing this a few times a day and it seems to be
getting better so first of all um you have to have nice clean hands and make sure your fingernails
are nice and short so you don't end up scratching baby and then what you do how do you pop it hello
is you apply light pressure to the inside of the eye like that you might try and eat your finger
and then what you do is you just gently sweep along the cheekbone like that just like that
we've been doing this a few times a day and this seems to be working
it seems to be getting better but otherwise we are also making a doctor's appointment just to
make sure that it isn't anything bacterial that we need some um anti-biotic ointment for um but
hopefully this should be working um and just a little light pressure on the inside of the eye.
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