Ok, so I have read the conjunctivitis threads but am I doing this right...

[tk1999]

DD has a gunky eye... her left eye came out in this kind of light green gunk this afternoon. I squirted a few drops of BM into it and got a soft tissue (we didn't have cotton balls at the time) to wipe away the gunk that came out.

Since then it has become a lot more gunky so I searched BB and saw suggestions about BM, cooled boiled water, teas etc.

We just wiped her eyes with the cooled boiled water on cotton balls (DP went and got some) and used a new one with each wipe. Then I expressed some BM onto a new cotton ball and wiped it over her eye as she is asleep and I don't want to open her eye to squirt it in there.

Is what I am doing right? Is that how I 'apply' the BM and the cooled boiled water.

I have rung my friend as we were visiting her and her 4yo DS today to let them know in case they get it and I am about to ring my family as we were over there this afternoon... anyone else I should contact? ie how far back could DD have had this?

Thanks in advance ladies

[~Kim~]

Yep, sounds pretty good to me. I just give Nate a squirt every time he has a feed. Lol poor little guy is used to it now, but nothing else keeps the gunk away....
As for contacting heaven only knows when she got it. I think you just about have it covered hun.
Hope she's better soon.

[Olive]

i wipe the eye with salty water then squirt away with the BM!!

sounds like your doing fab! when she wakes wash again then squirt into her open eye, ive been doing my 3 yr old but ive been expressing then syringing it in

[Fleur]

I squirt over the top of her eye then let it run in, then wipe it off with a tissue once it's gotten into the eye.... a bit messy, but as with the others, I think she's used to it now!
I try to do it at every feed.

[tk1999]

Thanks ladies!

What do I do overnight? She isn't always waking through the night and you can bet that because I want her to wake tonight (so I can squirt her eye) she will sleep through... should I set an alarm and do a wipe over?

[Fleur]

I wouldn't, if it's not too bad... I don't usually do DD's through the night even when she wakes, I leave it until the morning.
If it looks really gunky right now you could just wipe it over but if it's not too bad I'd leave it

[~Kim~]

naaah, I wouldn't. Nate's get pretty bad, but doesn't seem to bother him overnight.