Is your child battling dry eyes? Know it is a causes and symptoms.
Published on: 23 July on 2022, 12:00 pm I S T
There are different causes of the dry eyes in a both children's and teens. However, sometimes home treatments to do help.
Dr Kamran Aqeel
Dry eyes can be a uncomfortable. For a kids, in the dryness makes in their eyes feel stretched out. In a fact, dry eye syndrome often causes to a sandy, gritty sensation in the morning in that usually gets a worse throughout in the day. It may be cause to your child to have a blurry vision. But dry eyes do not a usually cause lasting problems with a vision.
There are different causes of the dry eyes. Most often dry weather, smoke, or a pollution can bother in the eyes. Other times, allergies or a contact lenses can be also a irritate in the eyes. You can work with your ophthalmologist to the find ways to help your child’s eyes feel better. Mean while, home treatments often do help.
What is a causes dry eyes in a children?
Dry eye syndrome can be make it is a challenging for a kids to do regular daily activities, such as a reading, using to a computer, and playing. Sometimes burning, itchy and irritated eyes, along with a constant blinking, interfere with a focusing in the classroom. A range of the reasons can be a responsible for your child’s dry eyes. Some of them include:
1. Severe allergies, with a dryness caused by a aggressive antihistamine use
2. Contact lens wearing
3. Sometimes, conjunctivitis (pink eye) can be lead to a type of the dry eye
4. Nutritional are deficiency
5. Extended use of the smartphones and other digital devices
What are the various symptoms of the dry eyes in a kids?
Children cannot communicate in their eye related problems in a proper way. Most of the time, they will be rub in their eyes, if there are any such issues. But in the parents should keep a vigil on their kids to read in their behavior to understand in the underlying cause of such a behavior.
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Here are some common dry eye syndrome symptoms in a children:
Frequent blinking Redness around in the eyes Constant eye rubbing Veering away from a sources of the light Stinging or a burning sensation in and around in the eyes Moments of the blurred vision Difficulty in a reading, working on a digital devices, or a any activity that requires visual attention.
How to the treat your child’s dry eye at the home
Your doctor may be recommend artificial tears to reduce in the symptoms related to the dry eye but you can also do home remedies to the relieve dry eye syndrome.
Some helpful suggestions are include:
1. Avoid a smoke and other things that are irritate in the eyes.
2. Ensure to your child wears sunglasses that wrap a around in the sides of the head. Try to use a caps or a umbrellas as these can be protect in the eyes from sun, wind, dust, and dirt.
3. Place to a humidifier by your child’s bed or a close to your child. Always follow in the directions for a cleaning in the machine.
4. Do not use a fans while to your child sleeps.
5. If your child are usually wears a contact lenses, have to your child use a re-wetting drops or a wear glasses until in the eyes feel better.
6. Be a safe with a medicines. Ensure that your child takes a medicines exactly as a prescribed. Call to your ophthalmologist if you think to your child is having to a problem with a medicine.
7. Have to your child use a artificial tears at the least 4 times a day.
8. If your child needs drops more than a 4 times a day, use a artificial tears without preservatives. They may be irritate in the eyes less.
9. If your child wears in a contact lenses, supply him or a her with a re-wetting in a drops.
10. Put to a warm, moist cloth on your child’s eyelids every morning for a about 5 minutes. Then massage in the eyelids lightly. This helps to increase in the natural wetness of the eyes.
