Help - dd13's eye tearing all day and feels like something is in it

[walkermamaof4]

Any ideas? She doesn't wear glasses or contacts. It started at bedtime last night. We tried splashing water in it and also put some homeopathic pink eye drops in it (although it actually doesn't seem like pink eye if I remember correctly.) Do I need to bring her to an eye doctor? I've never had this happen to us before. Thanks!

[Momofeat]

Well...My dh just took our 7yo ds to the doctor with the same symptoms. Diagnosis...pink eye. :-/

[wonderchica]

If it still hurts tomorrow I would take her in. My brother felt like that and it was a tiny shard of plastic from a toy that snapped in half. You couldn't see it, but it was in there and had to be taken out.

[amo_mea_filiis.]

Blepharitis?

 

It's an inflammation of the eye lids and the crappiest part of it is that foreign body sensation.

 

Of course she could have something in her eye.

[Plink]

Allergies can do that to me. My eyes actually swell on the inside of the lid, and that is what causes the sand-in-the-eye feeling.

 

It sounds like a trip to the doctor is in your future.

[PinkyandtheBrains.]

I'd go to the doctor in the morning. In the meantime, she can put a warm wet washcloth over her eye and let it rest there. Whether it is allergies, pink eye, or something else the warm compress should sooth it.

[StephanieZ]

Personally, I treat eyes as emergencies. I would take her to an urgent care (or e.r. if needed) immediately. It can be a foreign object in the eye that might need to be removed professionally.

 

Whatever it is, I think vision is too precious to take any chances. If anyone in our family has something "in" or painful about an eye that isn't immediately resolved by rinsing and tearing, I'd be en route to a doctor.

[Cinder]

Could she have somehow scratched her eyeball?

[Halftime Hope]

Hubby endured something like this once for 24 hours before going to the doc. It was a tiny, clear piece of insect shell that was invisible to the naked eye but showed up like a spotlight once it was dyed. Like the previous poster, we don't mess around with eyes. Our standard routine is to lay down for a nap with warm compresses available, and if it isn't better within a couple of hours of resting, it's off to the doc we go. [Paragraph break] BTW, we don't go to GP for eyes--I worked for one that had no common sense and should have been sued for things he did to/for eye problems in a lower income part of town. It turns my stomach to think of it.

[walkermamaof4]

Valerie(TX) - so would you wait for morning for optometrist or go to urgent care?

[Mergath]

I had that once, and it turned out I had scratched my eye. I think it's always better to go in right away, because there's just no way to tell if it's a scratch or a foreign object in the eye. Most scratches will heal in twenty-four hours or so though, so if it's been almost that long, you should definitely take her in to get checked.

[Tree Frog]

I'm going to toss this out there. It's likely not the problem your child has, but the symptoms are the same. I have this problem and the opthamologist told me I had dry eyes. Even though my eyes were tearing constantly, it seems the tears were the wrong type (There are apparently 2 different types of tears, moisterizing and clean-off-the-eye kind.) My eyes were producing the clean off the eye tears, but needed moisturizing tears. Her recommendation was to use moisturizing drops (not visine) during the day and a thick gel stuff at night.

 

I hope you're able to find the problem and it's nothing serious!

[redsquirrel]

My dh took himself to the Dr for exactly the same reason (it was the first time I have known him to go to the doctor) and it was allergies. The doctor said "well, this is weird, because you are third person in today with that exact same complaint" . Dr suggested OTC allergy medicine. It did the trick.