- Common in children
- Intermittent tearing and debris on the eyelases
- Treatment
- Massage nasolacrimal sac
- Keep eye clean – wash with salt water as neede
- Warm compresses – 5 min, 2-5/day
- Chloramphenicol drops/ointment for infection or control Abx overgrowth
- Refer for lacrimal duct probing
- Refer if
- Birth – 2 weeks – acute sticky eye with discharge – ED
- Neonates with visible dilation of lacrimal sac, discoloration – ED
- Over 12 months not responded to conservative measures
- If severe discharge causing skin irritation
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