Has anyone had the tear duct surgery performed on their baby?

Q. My daughter is 12 months and has not outgrown a clogged tear duct in one eye. We have been referred to a pediatric opthamologist who will perform the probing surgery on her eye. I am having mixed feelings about this and would love to hear from any parents have first hand experience with this!

A. I've been struggling with my baby's blocked tear duct surgery for 2 years now. First they said it would clear up after he turned 12 months and massages. It didn't, he's had 1 probing surgery and it failed. Now we are going with the balloon catheter dilation (DCP). I hope that your babys' surgery goes well because probing is more of a miss after the baby turns 12 months. The older child the higher the risk that the probing will fail.

Regardless it is a very routine procedure. It will take less than10 min--including putting the baby to sleep. Perhaps that's what scares most parents is the anesthetic. You can relax cause it's super safe and it wears out quickly. Before you know it your baby will be out and you can go home. Just follow the doctor's instructions and everything will be fine. As for my baby well we will keep trying. Just don't be upset if it doesn't work or it closes again within 6 months. Good luck.

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At home or over the counter treatments for watery eyes?

Q. I have a damaged tear duct due to facial injuries from a car accident 6 years ago. As a result, my natural tears do not drain properly and spill over. People always ask me if I'm ok or why am I crying, it's embarrassing and annoying to always have to wipe my eye. I need surgery to correct it, but surgery is not an option right now. Is there any kind of over the counter treatment or anything that I can do to at least make my eye less watery?

A. Doesn't sound like something that can be treated *without* surgery . . . I can't think of anything that would dry out your eye, unless you wear contacts, but - due to the injury - I doubt that would be safe. I'd go to an optometrist and ask them; I don't know of any drops or such that would dry your eye . . .

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Has anyone had a child that has gotten the surgery blocked tear ducts?

Q. My son has had clogged tear ducts since he was born. We tried massages and were hoping he would grow out of it but at his one year check up he had not. She sent our to a specialist at nemours and they suggest we get the surgery to unclog the ducts. It involves a small probe down the tear duct and supposedly your child is only under for about 5-10 minutes. I wanted to hear from other parents who may have been through this procedure how it went.

Thanks!

A. Amber didn't have the surgery but we had tried everything and then the dr prescribed us erythromycin ophthalmic ointment and it was gone after 3 days of applying it.

It is used intially to treat pink eye, but it seemed to do the trick...I paniked when I got home and read that it was for pink eye when she didn't have it and found this website explaining the processes of eye problems

it's in the section: 7.1st eye examination part D
http://www.youreyesite.com/files/visioninformation.html

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What do you think about lasik eye surgery?

Q. I want to get lasik surgery but I remember about 9 years ago when I was about 18 and I wanted to get the procedure done, someone I worked with told me that it was dangerous. She told me before lasik there was a different type of eye surgery. It produced the same result as the lasik but 20 years later there vision was worse than before and they were practically blind. That scared me. Is this true? Is lasik surgery safe?

A. LASIK eye surgery is a medical procedure that can correct your vision by altering the physical properties of your eye. Unlike traditional surgical procedures that depend upon the skills and steadiness of the surgeon's hand, advanced LASIK eye surgery is computer controlled.

The more progressive LASIK surgery centers perform in-depth analysis of your eyes as an evaluation procedure to determine if you're a good candidate for the LASIK procedure. The evaluation process, which is largely controlled by computer itself, maps the overall physical makeup of each eye. A traditional eye exam determines your visual abilities and then an exhaustive computer analysis determines if your eyes can be enhanced by the LASIK procedure.

In addition to determining whether or not you're a good candidate for LASIK, the procedure also records quite a bit of data that's specific to your eyes. If you choose to proceed with the LASIK surgery, this data is used to program the computer controlled LASIK equipment to insure that your eyes are modified exactly in the proper manner so as to provide maximum benefit.

LASIK eye surgery does carry some risks, such as loss of vision. In some extremely rare cases, the patient may lose vision due to equipment malfunction, scarring or healing related complications.

One common risk of LASIK eye surgery is that any dry eye condition that is experienced right after surgery may hamper the healing process. Signs of dryness are burning, redness and decreased vision. If this dry eye condition persists, you may have to medicate to improve tear duct function and use artificial tears to maintain the proper level of moisture. You must keep your eyes moist after LASIK surgery in order to promote healing.

LASIK eye surgery is relatively safe and it can free you from glasses and contacts. Before you commit to LASIK surgery, make sure that you consider all the advantages and disadvantages of having the procedure. Ask the doctor lots of questions so that you can make an informed decision about whether LASIK eye surgery is the right choice for you.

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