The Easiest Way to Give Your Child Eye Drops
I have nagged children about unpleasant procedures (sucking out snot, cutting nails) so many times that I’m a pro. But when the doctor told me that I needed to give the little baby eye drops, I thought that this was the limit of my parenting talents. Not so: there is an easy way to do it.
Our pediatrician recommended this trick, which I am also going to use on myself the next time I need eye drops. It looks like this:
- Have the child lie down and close their eyes.
- Tilt their head to the side so that the eye you are aiming at is above the bridge of the nose.
- Place the eye drop in the small fossa where the bridge of the nose meets the corner of the (closed) eye.
- Let them open their eyes while they are still lying. An eye drop, bound, like all of us, by gravity, has nowhere to go except in the eye.
The procedure was so easy for us that soon my daughter asked for eye drops because she somehow found this entertainment? I cannot explain this part. But at least you don’t have to open your child’s eyes.