For newborn babies, crying is the most direct means of expressing emotions, but careful parents will find that it seems that the baby rarely has tears when crying, as if "pretending to cry", many parents also think that the baby is "playing smart", in fact, this is because the newborn baby's tear glands are not developed, so there are very few tears, usually after 1 month of birth there will be obvious tears. If the baby has "tears" shortly after birth, parents should pay special attention.
One of the most common causes of tearing in newborn babies is neonatal dacryocystitis, in which the baby appears tearing symptoms after birth, at the same time, the baby's inner corner of the eye will also have sticky yellow-white pus outflow, usually when you get up in the morning, you find that the baby's eyes have a lot of eye feces, and often monocular disease.
For babies with dacryocystitis, parents can massage the skin of the baby's large corner of the eye, that is, the lacrimal sac area, to promote the opening of the baby's lower mouth of the nasolacrimal duct, and at the same time use antibiotic eye solution to dot the eyes. Generally, with the baby's own development and massage treatment, most babies can be cured.
When the baby has congenital eyelid inverted eyelashes, because the eyelashes are lodging on the surface of the eyeball, it will stimulate the cornea and bulbar conjunctiva to cause tearing, in addition to "tears", the baby is often accompanied by increased blinking, rubbing eyes with hands from time to time. If the eyelash lodging is not obvious and the irritation symptoms are not serious, special treatment is generally not required, strengthen observation, and regularly take the baby to the ophthalmology for review.
In addition, there are some diseases such as conjunctivitis, keratitis, blepharitis, lacrimal adenitis, etc. that can also cause tearing in babies. If you find that the baby has symptoms similar to tearing, you should go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible to avoid delaying the baby's vision development.