My daughter is 2 1/2 and has pink eye...both eyes!!! She has to have eye drops 4 times a day. She throws a screaming, crying fit everytime we get the drops out. I'm not even sure I am getting any of it into her eyes. I've tried offering a treat, ice cream, m & m's...I'm desperate at this point. Give me your secrets...PLEASE...I hope someone has some advice!
Do it while they sleep. Open the lids and drop it in. I wait untill they have been asleep for about 30 minutes. If you have to do this while they are awake, lay them down, hover over the top of her head so she is looking up at you, them drop them in.
Good luck.
D.
I did this last year with my then 1yo (I think- he may have been a bit younger- still feisty enough to throw all of his limbs at me) and I did it the barbaric way- but opposite. I would get on my knees facing him so I'm sort of sitting my bottom (you don't actually sit down, you're on your knees on the floor) on his tummy and his arms and legs are behind and under me. That way I had a straight on look into his face and he couldn't move his head away because one hand I had held the eye open while the other held the dropper. A lot of screaming and kicking, but it was over and done with quickly. Better than the other ways where you try and try to hold everything together and it takes so long with all the crying and screaming. It definitely seems mean, but sometimes the things we have to do to them or have done to them seems that way, but is for the best, unfortunately (like their vaccinations- uggghh!). Sorry you have to go through this. At this age most of them just don't get, "lie there nice and still with your eye open so I can drop this liquid in your eye". I don't even like eyedrops! Poor thing. Poor you too!
I had this same problem and my pediatrician said that it is perfectly okay to have them close their eyes and put it in the corner of their eye. She said when they open their eye enough gets in there to work. I did it the last time my daughter had pink eye and it worked.
Good luck!
I guess my method could me labelled the sneaky method -
I put the medicine in when my daughter was asleep! It made, at least, a few of the daily doses a bit easier.
Good luck!
S.
OK, here comes the barbaric, yet effective way of handling this. I have my kids lay with their head in my lap..well on the floor, but anyway, I spread my legs out and put them iver the kids shoulders so they pretty much cant move. Do you have a visual yet.. anyway..with my legs straddled over them, they arent thrilled, but they cant put their hands over their eyes. Then, I hold the eye open with one hand, and drop it in with the other. I have a wet paper towel ready for each eye that they get to put on immediately, and then,we start again in a few hours! Its not fun, but it gets the job done. Good luck! ~A.~
