Monday morning I woke up with what felt like a case of pink eye. I haven't had pink eye in as long as I can remember, but my left eye was a little swollen, goopy, a little red, and somewhat itchy. I called in to my doctor who prescribed me some eye drops and it took me awhile to get ahold of lactation to be sure that what was prescribed was ok to use while breastfeeding.
I had always heard things about breastmilk being used to treat certain things, pink eye being one of them. Since it took awhile to get things sorted out with a prescription, I thought I would try putting some of it in my eye. We found an unused medicine dropper and I just put drops in my eyes every few hours, just like I would have done with prescription eye drops. Throughout the day, my eye started to feel better, so I thought I would just continue with the breastmilk and hold off on the prescription for now. Approximately 48 hours later, my eye felt back to 100% - all due to my breastmilk!
It may sound slightly crazy to put breastmilk in your eye, but it did the trick, didn't have any side effects or risks, and cost me absolutely nothing! Pretty awesome, if you ask me:)
Feel free to comment with anything you've treated with breastmilk or even anything you have heard that breastmilk treats. This is an area I'm definitely interested in!
4 comments:
Kim Kardashian put her sister's on her psorasis and it helped :-) I'vr used it for pinkeye and for really dry patches of skin.
I was going to say the same thing about Kim K...too funny!
I have successfully treated pink eye with it, as well as tried the bug bite remedy. Here's a great list! :) http://voices.yahoo.com/breast-milk-its-many-uses-156688.html
Great for rashes (esp diaper rash!), sore nipples, and bug bites!
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