Claire is suffering from Yan Zhen

Hello everyone :)

This blog was lifeless for about 2 years plus. I guess life was kinda stagnant for us after a big milestone passed, our wedding honeymoon at Europe.On 30th Dec 2012, life changed after our baby Claire came into our life. I will talk more about it in another post. :)

For this very first post, it will be good to update my friends about little Claire's eye condition.About 2 weeks ago, I spotted a very very tiny red dot at her left eye lid. I even asked my father-in-law, who is one of the main carer, "Ah Pa, did u see something red here?" He replied "no leh, where got"? After a few days,  her eye became swollen, (pic). My mother-in-law said something must have bitten her, or was she allergic to egg? Immediately, we stopped feeding her egg, and rushed to see a pediatrician.

Our pediatrician said, "oh, she has a 眼针 (Yan Zhen), or our saying Zhen Yan." It was due to blocked sweat duct which caused bacteria infection. I then recalled we don't really clean her eye lids. Being first time parents, we are pretty anxious and kinda guilty too.

The doc gave us a antibiotic cream to apply on her eyelid. We will need to use a warm damp cloth to dap her eyelid first before application so the pores will be open and absorb the cream.

After a week, we noticed that there's a pus in her eye but overall her eye has reduced its swell. But this still kept us worried so Justin Papa and father-in-law brought her to see another pediatrician and gave another cream which will stay longer after application.

Today, the pus seems gone but there's still a tiny swollen thingy which I wonder is the pus still there? Let's see whether it will disappear. Now we are sure to clean her eye lids during her baths. We leant the hard way :( Poor Claire, Mama and papa are still learning.

 By the way, this is the cream that she is using for those who are interested to know :)

Cheers,

Deariebear Mommie