What to do if your child's eyelashes grow inward

It is quite common for eyelashes to grow inverted in our daily life, especially for babies. This often affects the baby's eyes, causing the baby to rub their eyes constantly and often shed tears. When eyelashes grow inverted, parents can wash their hands first and then pull up the lower eyelid. Doing this for a long time will help the lower eyelashes to grow outward naturally. In addition, some regular treatment methods can also be used for treatment.

What to do if your child's eyelashes grow inward

1. When the baby is asleep, mom and dad should wash their hands and gently press down the baby's lower eyelids with their fingers to create the effect of making a face. Long-term persistence can make the lower eyelashes grow naturally

2. Pinch the base of the baby's nose with your fingers and gently lift it up. Do this twice a day. It can effectively improve the inverted length of eyelashes and increase the height of the nose bridge~

3. Dip a cotton swab in chloramphenicol eye ointment and brush the baby's lower eyelashes downwards like applying mascara. Apply a thick layer so that the eyelashes stick to the lower eyelid and they will not prick the baby's eyes!

4. If the baby is over two years old and his lower eyelashes are still attached to the surface of the eyeball even when he is not crying, it is considered pathological trichiasis. At this time, surgical treatment can be considered as appropriate.

The baby's eyelashes are thin and soft. If the ingrown eyelashes do not affect the baby at all and the baby can eat and drink normally, then you don't need to pay attention to it. The baby's chubby cheeks are also one of the reasons why the eyelashes grow inward. As the baby grows up, the inverted eyelashes will gradually return to normal.

Attention! Do not pull out eyelashes! Pulling out eyelashes will not only damage the hair follicles and cause pain to the baby, but the eyelashes that grow again will become thicker, which will make the baby more painful!

How to care for baby's inverted eyelashes

1. Regularly apply antibiotic eye drops to your child or apply chlortetracycline eye ointment to prevent infection.

2. Massage the child's eyelids. Parents can use their clean thumbs to gently massage the child's lower eyelids downward and outward while the child is feeding or sleeping. Make the eyelashes move away from the eyeball. With more massages, the inward-turned eyelashes will slowly grow outwards.

3. Use adhesive tape. Parents can also take a short piece of medical tape. Stick one end on the edge of the child's lower eyelid and the other end on the cheek. Make the child's lower eyelid slightly everted to reduce the threat of eyelashes to the eyeball.

Reasons why babies have ingrown eyelashes ① Some babies are fat, and the fat at the root of the nose is not fully developed at this age, and the skin is loose, which can easily lead to inverted lower eyelids. Some babies also have wrinkles on the inner side of the eyes, causing slight inversion of the inner side of the lower eyelid.

②Some babies have underdeveloped eyelids, resulting in congenital entropion.

③Some babies have entropion due to eye infections, such as trachoma, inflammation of the eyelid margins, etc.

Don't worry if this happens. Mothers should carefully observe their children's condition or ask a doctor to help find the cause.