Saturday I noticed that Miles had some eye boogies upon waking from his naps and found it odd. Sunday the frequency picked up in the left eye and my mama radar was on high alert. By the afternoon I was thinking pink eye, but aside from goopy eye gunk there was nothing else to confirm. There was no redness, he was happy, not rubbing his eye or anything else that the older ones have done. When we arrived at their godmother's house he was sleeping so I couldn't inquire. However, it was a different story when he woke up. Rachel went to give a squeeze and stopped in her tracks. I asked what would make his eye do that as it was some pretty serious discharge. Pink eye were the words that came from her mouth. I said that I had thought that but since his eye wasn't pink I was uncertain. Given her nurses training she pulled down his eye lid revealing a very red inflamed lower lid. Then Rachel pulled down the other eye to show a normal pink. "Obviously I cannot officially diagnose, but given everything I've seen it sure looks like pink eye to me."
Rachel lives an hour away from us, which means my normal homeopathic drops weren't available. I felt bad for Miles as I find pink eye highly uncomfortable. Then I remembered something I had read. Breast milk helps fight pink eye with all of its wonderful 'anti' properties. So Rachel loaned me a dropper, I expressed some milk and proceeded to drop some in Miles' eye. Of course he didn't like it and cried. But who likes fluid in their eyes? Rachel advised me that if he wasn't better by Wednesday to seek medical attention. However, he was doing so much better by this morning. In fact Rachel commented that she was surprised to find that his eye didn't swell shut overnight.
For all the crazy things I've tried and done, I never thought I'd have reason to drop breastmilk in my child's eye! So now you know, as do I, that breast milk can help the body fight pink eye.
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