[blindkid] infections

[Patricia Renfranz]

My daughter is microphthalmic. When she was younger, she had a lot of
discharge. We chose to have her tear ducts (the ducts that typically drain
the eye through the nose) cleared out by her ophthalmologic plastic surgeon,
the idea being that the ducts were blocked or poorly developed. The surgeon
ran really thin, soft plastic tubing through the ducts, which stayed in
place for a few weeks and were then removed in his office. She has rarely
had discharge issues since.
Hope this helps,
Pat
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dblair2525 at msn.com
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> From: Jessica Brown <black22 at localnet.com>
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> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 20:24:45 -0400
> To: <blindkid at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [blindkid] infections
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> It seems there are a lot of you who have chiildren with micro or anopthalmia.
> Do you have problems with infections. We seem to have problems quite often
> with discharge and inflamation. She has drops from the opthamalogist but it
> seems to be an on going problem.
> 
> Jessica
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