I hav been talking to some girls and they says the midwife will ask if i want my baby to have eye drops when first born incase of infection... if this is true are they eye drops ok.. o have been seachin net and some say on chat rooms it causes blindness,,, if this is true y would the midwifes be at you to have these eye drops... please help... did your babys hyave eye drops?
2006-11-28 22:14:16 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
i should say that question again... did any of your midwifes ask for your newborn to recieve eye drops? lol
2006-11-28 22:15:13 · update #1
my kids were born in hospital and the doctors put the eye drops in w/o asking if it was okay. the reason they use the eye drops is because of possibility of infection- the eye drops are an antibiotic eye drop. none of my kids are blind and all are healthy
2006-11-28 22:18:21 · answer #1 · answered by tiggerkitty3 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In Canada it is required for a newborn to get the antibiotic eye drops you are speaking of. If a baby gets an infection they can go blind and that's why they give the drops. Here we have the choice to say we don't want the drops put in for a while after the baby is born as it makes the child's vision blurry. I asked to wait a bit but I am happy my child got the drops to prevent infection and blindness. If you ever watch any of the shows like a baby story on TLC or what ever, you will see many baby's who have a glossy look on their eyes, this is the baby's who got those drops. I would completely recommend them.
2006-11-28 23:06:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I signed a waiver not to have the eye drops. Here it is state law but you can sign a waiver to get out of it. The eye drops prevent blindness that is caused by gonorrhea and chlamydia in the woman's vagina. If you are positive you don't have those diseases, your baby does not need eye drops. Personally I am not a fan of extra antibiotics so we refused them. The people on the chat rooms are confused- the eye drops do not ever cause blindness, but if you have gonorrhea or chlamydia then not having the eye drops your baby could go blind.
If you do decide to get them make sure it's erythromycin and not silver nitrate. Silver nitrate hurts the baby's eyes. Most places are using erythromycin these days.
2006-11-29 02:02:29 · answer #3 · answered by AerynneC 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The eye drops are to help with infection that may occur after giving birth. They are fine, nothing will happen to your baby. I am working on my second and I have seen plenty other babies you were born and had eye drops and they are fine.
The eye drops are not like eye drops for contacts or anything so you don't have to freak out. The hospital normally just go ahead and do it. Because you have a mid wife they normally like to give you the option of most things before they do them.
2006-11-29 01:23:34 · answer #4 · answered by the pregnant lady 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never heard of this and no my daughter didn't have eye drops. If there was an infection then go to the doctor and they will give you eye drops if needed. I wouldn't do it unless directed by a pediatrician.
2006-11-28 22:24:50 · answer #5 · answered by irish20 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both of my girls recieved it and they're ok, I didn't even know about the blindness, where did you read it. Maybe it was sideffect warning but like one in million could...??? I would be more scared not to give them the eye treatment (it looked more like a cream then drops to me), they propably would end up with infection (too many bacteria in the birth canal) and my guess - more chance to damage their eyes.
2006-11-29 00:33:35 · answer #6 · answered by aaja 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i did no longer get eyedrops to take domicile, yet i'm interior the U. S.. i think of they provide them interior the wellbeing facility. in the journey that your infant has yellow crust, it takes a pair of months to sparkling up. My sons left eye cleared up at 2 months, and his good eye cleared up at approximately 3 and a nil.5 months. The physician stated it replaced into thoroughly common, now and returned that's there until 4 or 5 months. Congrats!
2016-10-13 08:17:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never even heard of such a thing and I have two children under the age of two, and neither one of them had eye drops. My second child was even born by an emergency C-section. Personally,I would not give my newborn baby medicine,because of the "just in-case syndrome".
2006-11-28 22:27:45 · answer #8 · answered by CeCe M 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I thought that when all babies are born in hospitals they get eye drops, well at least my 6 year old son did and he is not blind yet.
2006-11-29 00:07:41 · answer #9 · answered by 2Hott2Touch 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't get asked about it, they just automatically put eye drops in both of my kids eyes. They turned out just fine.........
Many times they just do it when they are weighing the baby etc. Most moms dont' even notice that they are putting drops in the babies eyes.
2006-11-28 23:14:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋