eyelashes in her eyes

[steffipoo]

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Hi.....

I have a ? for you all. Last week I had to pick up Olivia 15 minutes early from school to take my husband to his docs. So I tell em in the morning and they have her in the office early. Well she proceeds to rub her eyes a lot and tells the ENTIRE office I have pinkeye. This in turn surprised me when I walked in. They tell me her eyes are red and she'll need a note from the docs to come back to school. Now BTW any other time would they listen to her ramblings????most likely not. So sheesh she has to come with us to ucla now and I have to find a doc to write her a back to school note Little PITA while jeffs seeing his doc. So.... I get in with a doc and tell em the story and they're laughing. I am NOT... So I ask em a related ? Olivias last 20 eyelashes on the outer corner of both eyes grow down into her eyes so she constantly has eyelashes folded down in her eyes. So the attending did an interesting thing. She took what looked like a ph test strip with some medicine on it gently wiped it in the corner then took out a black light to look for scratches on her eyes. Well no scratches but she said we hafta get to the opthamologist cause this could cause infection or scratch her eyes. Well most likely they will have to surgically remove the lashes. Maybe she will stop rubbing her eyes so much. Anyone notice their kids eyelashes in the eyes> the outer one? its been a problem for year and every time she gets outta the shower I take a sterile like qtip and get em outta there and then 5 minutes later they are back in her eyes. weird question I know anyone else have this problem??? Thanks Steff

[lespring]

Angela had this problem for a very long time. I'd get a call from the school nurse and I'd say, "Before I come get her, please use a flashlight and look at her eye lids. Are there lashes on the outside corner that are stuck in her eye?" Almost always the answer was yes! Angela had some lid surgery 2 years ago and at the same time they lasered the problem lashes on each eye.

[steffipoo]

glad to know there is someone else out there

[Jodi]

Steph - YEP - Ryan has this problem too, usually his left eye. It's really noticeable when it happens - at its worst it does look like pink eye.

[mommygwen]

My Uncle had eyelashes that grew down and inward toward the eye. He would have the eye Dr. pluck then out. There is surgery to redirect the growth of the eyelashes upward and away fromn the eye. There is also the option of having the eyelash folicle eliminated.

[steffipoo]

THANKS AGAIN FOR THE INFORMATION...(((HUGS)))) Steff

[Debbie]

That sounds so painful to me. I have not had anything like that but have had problems with my corner eye lashes turning up into my eye. It is usually in my left eye which is my worst eye I have been told. Sometimes the eye lashes in the upper corner will do the same or get entangled in my corner eye lashes. I think the worst though is when there is an eye lash in your eye and you can't find it to get it out.

[momofrussell]

Reece has had this happened I think twice now but they've gotten out on their own. It's a trip to see it even!!! good luck with it all~!

A.