Hi mamas! My son is 9 days old and he’s been having a lot of discharge coming out of his eye. The other eye has some discharge too but mostly this one. I don’t see anything else wrong with it besides all the discharge coming out. I’ve been cleaning his eyes with a warm rag every time they get bad. Do I need to take him to the doctors for this?
We had the same problem. If the white of the eye is still white, it’s probably a blocked tear duct. If it’s red or pink, it may be an infection.
I wiped it out with a warm washcloth at every diaper change, massaged the lower inner eye after and then did a couple drops of breast milk on it. Cleared up within a day of doing those things.
Probably not pink eye. His tear ducts are probably clogged. Happened with my son. This might sound weird but try squirting breast milk in his eyes and massaging it a bit. It doesn't always work but it can help. Both of my son's tear ducts were clogged and one of therm opened on their own but the other one we had to have surgically opened when he was 15 months old.
I put a couple drops of breast milk in his eye and it cleared right up! Thank you ladies ??