Instillation of drops. Medical care for a child

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Instillation of drops. Medical care for a child

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Drops - these are medicines, and you can bury them in your child's eyes, ear or nose only as directed by a doctor. Together with drops in a pharmacy, pipettes should also be immediately purchased if the medicine bottle does not have a special dropper cap. For drops in the eyes, ears or nose, the pipettes must be separate.

Preparation for the procedure:

before use, rinse the pipette with boiling water inside and out, passing hot water through it several times;
prepare a few pieces of clean cotton wool;
when filling the pipette with medicine, you need to make sure that it does not fall into the rubber part of the pipette, so you need to hold the pipette strictly vertically;
it is more convenient for small children to instill drops with an assistant who will hold the baby’s head, arms and legs.

eye drops technique

1. Put a small child on his back. Older children can bury their eyes in a sitting position.

2. Take a piece of cooked cotton wool in your left hand. Place the index finger of this hand on the child's upper eyelid, and the thumb with a piece of cotton placed under it on the lower eyelid. Spreading your fingers, pull the lower eyelid down slightly.

3. With your right hand, from a pipette, inject 1-2 drops of the collected medicine onto the inner surface of the lower eyelid, closer to the outer (temporal) corner of the eye.

4. Remove your fingers from your eyelids.

5. With light movements, wipe the eye with cotton wool in the direction from the temple to the nose.

Applying eye ointments

The ointment is applied to the eyes using a special glass rod, one end of which is made in the form of a spatula. Before use, the stick is treated with boiling water. After the stick has cooled, a small amount of ointment is squeezed out of the tube onto the spatula area.

1. Pull back the lower eyelid and very carefully place the ointment over the edge of the eyelid at the outer edge of the eye.

2. Close your eye and lightly massage your eyelid to evenly distribute the medicine.

3. After laying the ointment, the child should sit or lie down for several minutes with his eyes closed.

ear drops technique

1. Before using the drops, warm up by lowering the bottle of medicine into a bowl of hot water for a few minutes. Check the temperature of the drops by dropping the medicine onto the back of your hand.

2. Use a cotton swab to clean the external auditory canal.

3. Lay the child on its side with the affected ear up.

4. With your right hand, draw drops into the pipette, and with two fingers of your left hand, grab the upper part of the auricle and pull it perpendicular to the head and slightly down.

5. Drop as many drops of medicine as prescribed by the doctor into the child's external auditory meatus.

6. Close the external auditory canal with clean cotton wool (but make sure that the cotton ball does not penetrate into the depth of the auditory canal).

Nose drops technique

It is more convenient for small children to bury drops together with an assistant. The assistant can hold the child in his arms in a semi-sitting position. For older children, nasal drops can be administered while lying down or sitting with the head thrown back.

1. Before the introduction of drops, clear the child's nose of mucus and crusts: for babies with a cotton "wick", and older children should blow their nose, releasing the right and left nasal passages in turn. Remember that a separate wick is used for each nasal passage and you cannot clean both nostrils at the same time. Infants can clear the nasal passages with a small syringe, sucking out the mucus.

2. Draw the medicine into the pipette.

3. Holding with your hands, slightly lift the tip of the child's nose. Tilt your head to one side: when instilling the right half of the nose - to the left, and vice versa.

4. Trying not to touch the nasal mucosa with a pipette, inject 2-3 drops of the medicine.

5. Leave the child's head in the same position for 30-60 seconds to evenly distribute the medicine over the mucous membrane.

6. In the same sequence, enter the drops into the other nasal passage.

Author: Basharova N.A.

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