For the health of the eye of the child, the normal functioning of the tear paths is essential. The tear fluid protects the eyes from adverse external factors (dust, sorts, smoke), protects the cornea and conjunctiva from drying, shanits the surface of the eyes - removes and kills microorganisms, and also provides the power of the cornea and normal vision, the thin lacrimal film is involved in the correct refraction of light rays .

Normally, the tear liquid is constantly in small amounts produced by a lacrimal iron and ishes the front surface of the cornea, covering it with a thin layer. The "worked" tear is discharged along the nose-cutting duct: from the eyebound in the cavity of the nose. However, approximately 35% of newborns, a membrane is closed.

As a result, the tear does not flow into the nose, and it is stirred in the inner corner of the eye, periodically overflowing through the lower eyelid. This is not yet dacryocystitis, but only the impassability of the rosal canal, which in the first 2-3 weeks is considered the physiological norm.

If the membrane does not disappear during the first weeks of life, the constant caution of tears with minimal particles and microorganisms accumulated with it will lead to inflammation of the tear bag - dacryocial. With dacryocystitis, in addition to the caution of tears, the mucous membrane or the mucous-purulent discarded in the eyes of the eye is noted (the eyes "zakisey"), sometimes separated can be so heavy that the baby sticks out the eyelids, and he cannot open them himself. Without treatment, the dacryocystitis is complicated by conjunctivities and more serious states (phlegmon of a tear bag, orbits, etc.).

To eliminate the membrane in the noseble channel, two methods of treatment are used - sensing and massage. The massage of the lacrimal channel in the newborn, provided that it regularly and the correct implementation is an effective means of conservative treatment and the prevention of dacryocystitis.

Indications for massage

  1. The prevention of dacryocystitis with the mounted obstruction of the rosal canal, facilitating the resorption of the membrane.
  2. Conservative treatment of dacryocystitis.

Please note: when the newborn is rushing the eye, massage can only be held after prior consultation with the children's ophthalmologist. Parents can be mistaken, assuming the child exactly dacryocystitis, and then the massage will not only be useful, but also causes the kid. A doctor-ophthalmologist is easily diagnosed with dacryocystitis, appoint suitable droplets to fight infection, and also will show mom how to carry out a massage.

Preparation for massage

Before performing the massage, you should prepare my mom itself and prepare a child.

  • Wash your hands with soap.
  • If necessary, weigh your hands - the touch of cold fingers is unpleasant to the baby, it strains and nervous.
  • Finger, which you will massage, slightly lubricate with cream or baby oil - to relieve sliding on the skin. Excess cream remove a clean napkin - they should not get into the eyes of the baby.

    • Preparation of a child

    With the eye of the child, remove the clean disk separated by clean cotton discs in a furaciline solution or in the brave of herbs (chamomile, calendula, a series - if there is no allergies on them). Swipe a well-dipped disk (a liquid must drop from it) from the outer angle of the eye to the inner. For each glazing used a new disk. Or you can rinse your eyes: Turn the baby's kid head and roll out (just drip out of the pipette in the outer corner of the eye) Furatcilin or the decoction of grass in the eye, which is "from above", that is, the fluid must flock towards the nose. If there is no separated, the eyes in front of the massage are not washed and not processed.

    The massage of the lacrimal bag in newborns is performed daily, 5-10 times a day, within two weeks. Then the baby re-examines an ophthalmologist. If the channel opened, the massage course is completed. If the membrane is preserved, then the massage continues to perform a massage daily before opening the channel or until the sensing is assigned.

    Massage

    Massage spend when the child either lies on the back, on a flat and hard surface (a changing table, a boobing board, a dense mattress), or right during feeding. Specially fix the head is not necessary. All movements must be performed in a fairly fast pace, approximately 2 seconds for each sliding pressure. It is desirable that at first an ophthalmologist or nurse showed mom, how to make a newborn eye massage.