How to treat barley in the child's eye

Any diseases related to the eye area should be treated especially carefully. The eye is the main organ of human perception. This is a large system that consists of numerous components and mechanisms. Today we will talk about barley - how and why it appears, what symptoms accompany it, how to treat it and whether it is possible to prevent reinfection. The question is particularly acute if the child is a patient.

What is barley

On the edge of the upper and lower eyelids grow hair - eyelashes. They protect the eye from external negative effects - wind, sun, water. Normally, the cilia root is in the sebaceous gland. The duct of this sebaceous gland is located at the extreme part of the eyelid, right where the cilium grows out of the skin. Skin secretion lubricates the cilia so that they are hydrated and can repel liquid and protect the eye from water.

If pathogenic microbes get inside the sebaceous gland, they begin to actively multiply and increase in their numbers. This clogs the duct and does not allow greasy fat to be expelled. As a result, the inflammation of the hair follicle begins - eyelashes - this is barley. The disease is most often caused by falling Staphylococcus aureus on the mucous membrane of the eyes and eyelids. How to recognize barley and distinguish it from other inflammations of the eye area?

Barley Symptoms

Visual changes of a century can occur from several hours to several days from the moment of infection. How does barley appear?

1. On the affected eyelid, a noticeable bump appears, completely shaped like a bead or a pea. Before the inflammation completely covers the face, it will be possible to notice the inflammation of a particular hair follicle.
2. Often the appearance of barley begins with itching and discomfort in the century.
3. The sclera of the sore eye turns red, it hurts the child to blink, there is a strong tearing.
4. When touching the barley, the child may cry, it speaks of the pain of an abscess.
5. In the later stages of the development of the disease, the eyelid swells up strongly, it is hard to open the eyes, swelling and redness appear. If the barley jumped up on the lower eyelid, the swelling could go on cheeks and nose.
6. In some cases, the barley can occur with signs of intoxication - high fever, headache, poor health.
7. A few days after the onset of inflammation, yellow dried mucus may appear at the tip of the tubercle. It is a mixture of fat secretion, bacteria and pus. This means that the barley will soon break through. After breaking through the contents of the hair cell comes out, the inflammation gradually subsides.
8. In some cases, the inflammatory process is accompanied by an increase in lymph nodes. This means that the immune system works in an emergency mode.

In some cases, barley can be not only classical (external), but also internal, when an abscess forms right inside the eyelid. In this case, home treatment is unacceptable, since the disease can lead to serious complications. If you find internal barley in your child, you need to show your baby to an oculist or ophthalmologist as soon as possible.

The causes of the development of barley

Barley is a common thing, children often get sick with it. But where does this infection come from?

1. As noted above, barley is an inflammation caused by the bacillus Staphylococcus aureus.The bacterium can get inside the eyelid in a household way - if the child was wiped off with a towel after the patient, if common handkerchiefs and napkins were used. A baby can become infected by simply rubbing its eyes with dirty hands.
2. However, the bacterium is not always, getting inside, begins to develop and multiply. If a person’s immunity is strong, he can withstand disease-causing organisms. With weak and depressed immunity barley jumps up on the eye quite often.
3. If the child often develops barley, the doctor will first ask about the work of the intestines, ask for tests for worms. In some cases, the recurrence of the disease may indicate diabetes mellitus, since this disease disrupts the walls of blood vessels.
4. If the body is able to restrain the development and reproduction of microbes, then after supercooling the barley pops up instantly.
5. Very often, barley appears in adolescence, when hormonal adjustment leads to the active work of the sebaceous glands. If there is a lot of sebum, ducts can become blocked, a large amount of secretion accumulates inside. Together with the bacteria, inflammation begins.
6. The frequent occurrence of barley can be a hereditary factor. That is, a gene predisposed to the disease is present in the human DNA.
7. Quite often, barley occurs in people who wear contact lenses, not observing the basic rules of hygiene. Microbes can get into the eye if you remove and put on the lenses with dirty hands, if you do not change the liquid in the containers in time, do not clean the lenses, or wear them longer than they should be.

These are the main provoking factors that trigger the development of the disease.

How to treat barley in a child

In fact, barley is not a dangerous disease. So that the disease does not lead to complications, you simply need to carefully monitor its course. Here are some ways to help relieve inflammation from the eye, relieve the accompanying symptoms and speed up the breakthrough of an abscess.

1. If the inflammation has already begun, and the abscess has not yet formed, you can cautiously cauterize the eyelid with iodine, green paint, or alcohol. To do this, pull the eyelid and lubricate it with the selected medication using a cotton swab. In no case do not drip alcohol in the eye - only the treatment of the century.Be extremely careful not to burn the eyes.
2. It is very useful to warm the eyes under the sun or an ultraviolet lamp. This will reduce inflammation and reduce swelling.
3. You can make by eye a warming compress. Wrap the boiled egg with a cloth and attach it to the inflamed area. You can warm the eyes with a cloth bag with warm salt, heated sand, etc. If you warm your eyes in the morning and in the evening, the abscess will break in a couple of days.
4. You can use a variety of antibacterial eye drops. Modern drugs are very effective, affordable and absolutely safe for children. Put Albucidine, Levomitsetin, Ziprolet, Tobrex, Sofradex in the eye. Eye drops must be used according to the rules. Place the child in front of you, gently pull the lower eyelid back and put the medicine in the conjunctival sac. Part of the drug when blinking will spill out, but the required dose will still fall to the zone of inflammation.
5. In the fight against barley, you can use a variety of antibacterial ointments. Among the most affordable and effective can be distinguished Levomekol, Tetracycline, Erythromycin, Hydrocardisone ointment. They also lay in the lower eyelid.Squeeze a small amount of medicine onto a clean finger, pull off the lower eyelid, put the drug there and ask the baby to blink. For some time, the child may experience discomfort and blurred vision, this is due to a thin film of medicine that has covered the eye. After 5-10 minutes the unpleasant feeling will pass.
6. When the temperature rises, signs of intoxication and swollen lymph nodes, it is necessary to consult a doctor so that he prescribes an antibiotic to suppress inflammation from the inside.

If self-treatment of barley does not help, and the inflammation only increases, be sure to consult a doctor. You may need a surgical autopsy of the abscess. In this case, the doctor mechanically cleans and disinfects the purulent cavity of the hair follicle, which leads to a decrease in inflammation and edema.

Folk remedies in the fight against barley

If the inflammation has just begun, it is not at all necessary to stuff the child with medicines, barley is quite possible to win with the help of folk recipes. However, not all of them really help.

When barley, for example, it is advised to suddenly spit a sick person in the eye.Of course, literally you shouldn't splash saliva, but suddenly you can say “ugh”. In ancient times, it was believed that barley appears as a result of the evil eye, which was eliminated by spitting over the left shoulder. However, this method, as well as the active showing of the fig, has no scientific basis. By the way, such a popular recipe, like putting brewed tea bags, is also not worth using. For the treatment of barley you need only dry heat. And wet bags, which cool down quickly, can be the cause of hypothermia and enhancement of the inflammatory process.

1. Prepare a strong decoction based on chamomile and calendula. Moisten a piece of sterile bandage in warm broth and apply it to a sore eye as a lotion. As soon as the bandage begins to cool, it needs to be changed to fresh and warm. In no case do not attach to the eye used bandage to prevent re-infection. Calendula has bactericidal properties, and chamomile will help relieve swelling, inflammation and redness.
2. You can make a lotion of warm water with the addition of aloe juice in a ratio of 1: 5.
3. Tear off 10 plantain leaves, slightly mash them with a rolling pin.Wet the sheet in hot water and apply to the inflamed area. As soon as the sheet begins to cool, change it to fresh and hot.
4. Burdock root will help relieve inflammation, decontaminate the surface and pull pus to the surface. Fresh root should be crushed to a state of gruel, put in a gauze bag and attach to the sore eye. After a few lotions you will be much better.

These simple recipes will help you rid the child of barley in the shortest possible time.

In order to further prevent the appearance of barley in the child's eye, you need to teach him to follow the rules of hygiene. Every family member should have their own towel. You can not rub your eyes with dirty hands, you need to thoroughly wash your hands after coming from the street and handshakes. Nails should be trimmed in time, so that bacteria and dirt do not accumulate under them. If the child wears contact lenses, you should carefully monitor their hygiene, put on and take off with clean hands, change the liquid in time, avoid putting the right lens on the left eye and vice versa. Every day in the morning, you should thoroughly wash your eyes from the mucus that accumulated during the night.Be sure to strengthen the immune system with proper nutrition, hardening, physical exertion. And then the body will be able to resist the bacteria and barley you will not be afraid!

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