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Suggest Treatment For Respiratory Tract Infection After Removal Of Tonsils
My 18 month old daughter had her adenoid & tonsils removed on Tuesday. (It is now Saturday.) They kept her in the hospital 2 days due to breathing difficulties & her refusal to drink. My concern now is that she has either picked up a cold on top of her recovery or she has some kind of infection. She s been on an antibiotic for the last 12 days so I don t understand how she could possibly have an infection, but she has so much thick, yellow/green drainage coming from her eyes & nose. Whenever she sleeps she wakes up unable to open her eyes. I wish I had a way to email you a picture.. They are glued completely shut from drainage. Is this normal? Should I be concerned only 4 days out from her surgery & at what point should I worry? I ve put on her cool mist humidifier, I ve used warm washcloths as a compress on her forehead & sinuses. Her ENT says she has either caught a cold or it s just the drainage from behind her large adenoid that was removed. I just want to get her some relief.. What can I do?
Thu, 17 Nov 2016
The eye infection should be managed properly with two types of antibiotics
fucithalmic drops for eye each 12hours
Before using the drops you gve to clean her eyes with small peices of cotton sicked in warm water and clean from the outer side of the eye toward the inner side near the nose then remove this cotton and use another one.
repeat this manouver until you clean all secretions then put the eye drops .
about her sinuses you di a good job but if you have nasal saline drops three times per day that will help in excretion of mucus and if you have a suction for baby to remove nasal secretion that will be good
try warm fluids with her a, some herbs .
fucithalmic drops for eye each 12hours
Before using the drops you gve to clean her eyes with small peices of cotton sicked in warm water and clean from the outer side of the eye toward the inner side near the nose then remove this cotton and use another one.
repeat this manouver until you clean all secretions then put the eye drops .
about her sinuses you di a good job but if you have nasal saline drops three times per day that will help in excretion of mucus and if you have a suction for baby to remove nasal secretion that will be good
try warm fluids with her a, some herbs .
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