tear duct surgery - Infant Care (up to 18 months old) Message Board

laauhe · 12-05-2006, 11:46 AM

has anyone else's kids had had the surgery for the tearduct blockage? Do they generally have a stuffy nose after? The blood is gone, but he sounds so stuffy he can barely use his paci cause he cant breath. Otherwise, recovery is fine ( just as crazy as he was before!!)

Angellica · 12-07-2006, 04:09 PM

My son had BOTH tearducts blocked and was that a horrible experience!!! It naturally cleared by 5 months of age, but his eyes were goopy and crusty everyday! I wish I would have known about this when he had the blocked tear ducts, but they say to put 'breastmilk' in thier eyes and that sometimes clears them.

Bye the way......how is the surgery done?

Denise98 · 12-08-2006, 02:34 PM

My DD is 8 mos old and there telling me Im going to have to have this done to her left eye it is goopy and crusty all day and she hates it touched which makes it hard to clean.. How do they do the surgery? Whats it like afterward recovery wise?

laauhe · 12-10-2006, 02:53 PM

Actually its very quick, it is done under anthesesia(sp?) due to the nature of the surgery, but it takes about a half hour or less. My son had both ducts cleared that were both blocked with "bony structure" internally.

They go through the tear duct and out through the nose with blunt untensils, no cutting or sharp things. My son did have a good bloody nose for one day, a little purple under the eyes but overall he was fine. '

We went to a large childrens hospital which I highly recommend doing beacuse everyone knows kids and everything there is for kids. And the anesthesia person is used to children dosage.

Good luck.

Denise98 · 12-11-2006, 09:34 PM

Thanks for the info I was worried about it