How do i insert Eye-Drops into my daughter? PLZ HELP. She won't keep still, and refuses to keep her eyes open

Question

6 year old daughter need medicated Eye-Drops.

She hates them, and refuses to let me do them.

Keeps her eyes shut, and then rubs her eyes - so the drops don't go in.

Need advice please, on how to do it

Would it be better to have another person to help me ?
maybe they could hold her still ? she always sqirms loads.

Answer 1

1. Gather your supplies
2. Wash your hands well with soap and water.
3. Remove any drainage from your child’s eye with a clean tissue. Start at the nose and wipe outward.
4. If the eye has crusted drainage around it, wet a washcloth with warm water and gently wipe the eye. If you cannot remove the crust, wet the washcloth again and try to gently remove the crusted drainage. Continue using the warm, moist washcloth and gently wiping until all the crust isremoved. Wash the washcloth with soap and water before using it again.
5. Have your child lie on his back. To help a young child lie still, sit on a flat surface such as a floor or bed. Place your child’s head gently between your legs and put his arms under your legs. You can also cross your lower legs over your child’s legs to keep them from moving.
6. Place a pillow under your child’s shoulders or rolled-up towel under the neck; so that your child’s head is tilted back and to the same side as the eye to be treated (right eye- turn head to right; left eye-turn head to the left). The eye drops should flow away from your child’s nose.
7. Carefully remove the dropper from the medicine bottle. The dropper should not touch anything but the inside of the bottle.
8. Make sure the right amount of medicine is in the dropper.
9. Tell your child to look up and to the other side (away from the eye you are putting the medicine in).If your child is young, you can make a game of giving the eye drops. Tell your child to open his eyes on the count of three, then count to three. When you say three, drop the medicine into your child’s eye.
10. Put the wrist of the hand you will be using to give the drops on your child’s forehead. This will help steady your hand.
11. Pull the lower eyelid down to form a pocket.
12. Place the dropper so that the medicine will fall into the pocket, never directly onto the eyeball.
13. Squeeze the bottle dropper for the number of drops your child’s doctor has prescribed.
14. Tell your child to close his eye, then blink. This helps spread the medicine around the eye.
15. Remove any extra medicine with a clean tissue, wiping from the nose outward. Wait one minute between each drop of medicine.
16. If your child’s doctor has ordered medicine for both eyes, repeat these steps for the other eye.
17. Praise your child for helping!
18. Put the medicine in a safe place, out of your child’s reach.
19. Wash your hands well.

Answer 2

The easiest way to do it is while her head is tilted back with her eyes closed drop the eye drops in the inner corner of lid. Make sure she opens eyes while head is still tilted back and it will fall inher eyes. The harder thing to do will be convincing her not to rub the medicine out. Maybe getting her help in the process will give her a little feeling of control. Six is old enough to readon with so give her the chance to show you what a big girl she is .

Answer 3

Sometimes is easier if you squeeze the medicine on the little pink part of her eye near her nose..i have no idea what it's called, it's where the tear duct is. If you can convince her it won't hurt, you press the bottle on the tear duct and squeeze a drop, she won't get that drop on the eyeball experience she is freaking out about .

Answer 4

You need to get control of her upper body and arms. Sit on them or have someone weigh them down, hold them down... the legs don't really matter. If she closes her eyes you're going to have to pry them open a little to instill the drops. Once they're in , you can let her run off screaming to her heart's content. You don't need to keep her held down after the drops are in.

Answer 5

i exploit eye drops each and all of the time for glaucoma and no they do no longer harm your eyes they only reason a stinging sensation for about a minutes. If her eyes are hurting then something else is erroneous no longer touching directly to the attention drops. Get her verify out by making use of her GP.

Answer 6

I think your daughters sight is far more important that her comfort. Have a friend grab her bodyand arms...you grab her head and force her eyelids open.

Drop in the medication and keep holding her for at least 3 minutes.

Then let her run off crying for a bit.

She'll thank you when she's older.

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Alternatively, wait until the middle of the night, and drop them in while she's asleep. She won't know it's happening if you do it gently.

Answer 7

DO ONE THING THERE WILL BE SOME PATCHES OR SOME SORT OF CLOBETS WE CAN KEEP IT UNDER THE EYE LID WHERE THE DRUG WILL BE RELEASED IN SLOWLY IN MINIMUM QUANTITIES......TELL TO UR DAUGHTER ABOUT THIS WE CAN CHANGE IT AFTE TWO TO THREE DAYS ASK UR CONCERNED DOCTOR REGARDING THIS