Gunky eye

Does anyone’s LO have a gunky eye…. Noticed during the day yesterday it was getting gunky and he’s just woken up for a feed and it’s totally glued shut with gunk…. I’ve been wiping it with cooled boiled water as I’m guessing nothing else I can do but just wanted to check

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My little one is suffering too with this. You can massage the tear ducts (best to try when they are asleep) and I found using a nasal aspirator helped unblock him too as it’s made him a little bit bunged up with his sinuses.

Mines been ongoing so a week or so and I’m cleaning with cooled boiled water too. It hasn’t got worse but doesn’t seem to be getting better either so I’m going to call the doctors but hopefully your little ones will go away on its own x

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My little boy has had a gunky eye since he was born pretty much, I spoke to the midwife about it and she said it's totally normal, the only time you should be worried/ go to GP is if it's green/ yellow and the eye is inflamed and red. But otherwise just wipe with cooled boiled water when needed. Also if you are breastfeeding pop a bit of breastmilk on their eye, it defo helps. But then again my little boy loves rubbing his face all over my boob once he's fed, so I don't need to put breastmilk directly into his eye too much xx

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