Gunky eye - blocked tear duct

Hi! My baby had this and I was advised to put breast milk on his eye. It did clear up after that. I had also tried water with a pinch of salt as advised by another midwife but it didn’t help. Breast milk was the way forward!

I did boiled and cooled water and it cleared, have been told by health visitor to use breast milk too if comes back x

Ask the GP to swab it to rule out infection x

I have the same issue with my baby girl! She is 4 weeks old and we’ve been told to use breast milk. It’s getting better but we was told if it doesn’t clear up to go to the GP xx

Baby has had this since birth too, breast milk helped briefly but its come back. GP said its v normal at this age, to not worry if the eye itself wasn't inflamed and to gently massage eyeduct upwards w clean finger or q-tip, so the opposite way you'd normally wipe away a tear. Shes still gunky 5 weeks in 🤷‍♀️

Just to add my LO has had it and as it wasn't clearing up they swabbed to check it was tearduct and it did actually grow something, best to see GP to rule it out
My 1st borns cleared up within 2 days with breast milk but this one's hasn't and even with antibiotics he's still got stuff coming out

My baby's just got over a gunky eye but she was a prem and was told it's normal for prem babies to lickly get "gunky eye" it lasted afew days we did also get given antibiotics just incase it was an infection while waiting on swab results to come back keep cleaning it and should clear up

My first born had it really bad, we was cleaning it nearly day. We just used baby eye wash which is sterile water and a cotton pad. It eventually just went on its own. I read it's just the tear ducts maturing and it's part of the process.

We had this!! It cleared up with sterile water and breast milk! But then returned after going away, so the Gp gave us antibiotic ointment which cleared it up for good!