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Conjunctivitis

From inflammatory diseases of the eyes appearing at newborns in the first days of a life, especially often there are conjunctivitises of a various parentage. They can be a gonorrheal and not gonorrheal parentage.

Conjunctivitis of a gonorrheal parentage

The conjunctivitis of a gonorrheal parentage arises owing to infection during sorts at passage of a head of the child through patrimonial ways of mother sick of a gonorrhea. In some cases the child can be ill and after a birth. It can happen at rasping disturbance of sanitary-and-hygienic rules of care by the child, since gonococcus can be transferred by arms of mother or sister, linen, cotton wool which wash out eyes.

The first symptoms of disease are found out usually for 3-4th day of a life. Appear swell up a century and reddening of a mucosa of an eye. Become perceptible in the beginning serous, and then is serous-purulent allocation from a palpebral fissure.

At untimely and wrong treatment the cornea is involved in process. Business can reach an ulceration, perforation of a cornea and abaissement of an iris of the eye.

Purulent conjunctivitises of not gonorrheal parentage

Various microorganisms can be causes of illness. Disease begins usually in the end of the first week of a life, sometimes later and proceeds from several days about several weeks. Allocation from an eye happen serous is more often, but can be and purulent. The cornea is amazed extremely seldom.

Before arrival of the doctor it is necessary to isolate the child from other small children if they are in the house, to wash out eyes a weak solution of Acidum boricum.

In the event that one eye suppurates, it is necessary to preserve against disease of the second. For this child it is necessary to put on the party of a sick eye that pus did not get to the second, healthy eye.

Drops start up in eyes from a separate pipette for each child, delaying an eyelid a finger downwards. Each eye should be wiped a separate sterile wadded globule or a napkin.

If the doctor has prescribed a lavage of eyes it becomes as follows. The a little accurately cut slices of cotton wool put on the saucer which has been washed up by hot water. Cotton wool moisten with the prescribed solution and start a lavage: big and index fingers of the left arm move apart eyelids, with the right arm water from plentifully moistened cotton wool on an internal part of a lower eyelid. To water it is necessary so that the liquid did not spread on the person. For this purpose round an eye it is necessary to put a slice of cotton wool and to hold with its free fingers of the left arm. The head of the child should be inclined towards a washed out eye. After a lavage eyelids lower also pure cotton wool rub off space round eyes. If eyelids stick together from pus to their lavage it is necessary to moisten with warm water. Not to cause a pain to the child, eyelids should be moved apart only when they will disperse.

From among house agents, with success of infectious conjunctivitises used at treatment, it is necessary to name:

1. Fresh female milk (for newborns and baby).

2. Strong solutions of warm tea.

3. 2 % th solution of Acidum boricum.

Medical products for treatment of diseases of eyes should be used only on doctor's orders!.