To put ointment into your child’s eyes, have them sit in a chair and tilt their head back. Or they could lie down. You may need to wrap a baby in a blanket to keep their arms and legs still.

Chemical irritation can also cause conjunctivitis in newborns. Medical professionals may give eye ointment to newborns within 2 to 3 hours after the birth to prevent infections. These eye drops ...

“Having a healthcare provider treat your baby’s eyes with erythromycin ointment after birth is a scientifically-proven, simple, harmless, and cost-effective way to prevent infant blindness ...

In newborns, common causes include gonorrhea and chlamydia. An antibiotic eye ointment, erythromycin is given routinely to newborns after childbirth, to prevent these eye infections. But pink eye ...

Global Pharma Healthcare is expanding the recall of eyedrops linked to a case of blindness and one death to include its eye ointment cream after recommendation by the U.S. Food and Drug ...

Thousands of bottles of ointments for dry eyes sold in Walmart and CVS are being recalled over fears they could cause an eye infection. Inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA ...

Two weeks later, newborn Hazel was diagnosed with Moebius ... Victoria has to manually close her daughter’s eyes to rest them and apply eye ointment every hour or so to prevent damage to the ...