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Barley  - A fairly common disease in children of any age. This is an acute purulent inflammation of the hair sac of the eyelash and adjacent glands, it is usually provoked by Staphylococcus aureus.

A child has both one eye and both. Parents often ask themselves: is it possible to get infected and infect with barley ?, and can it repeat itself again and affect the second eye?

Reasons for the appearance

It is impossible to become infected with barley, but it is able to form again, even in the shortest possible time. This can occur from the fact that the baby’s body was not able to withstand microbes, that is, its immunity was weak.

Barley on the upper and lower eyelids appears for one reason.  But on the upper eyelid it can be not only external, but also internal, ripening inside the eyelid. In this case, it is formed in one day. With barley below, part of the face swells, swells, the inflamed area turns red.

Barley often appears when the simplest hygiene rules are not followed:

• The child rubbed his eyes with unwashed hands and brought an infection;
• A speck hit the eye and provoked barley, especially if they wanted to get it with a dirty scarf;
• Dust got into the eye, often it happens on the street, especially in windy weather;
• The infection could be on someone else’s towel or handkerchief that the child could use;
• Also, the cause of the appearance of barley could be hypothermia.

However, parents should know that barley can also appear as a result of serious diseases.

When the reasons for the frequent appearance of barley in a child are not clear, you need to undergo an examination

Symptoms of the disease

Basically, the appearance of barley is accompanied by the following symptoms:

How to cure barley in a child? Barley is an inflammatory process and is treated conservatively.

A warming compress helps well if you repeat the procedure regularly

When inflammation has begun, and there is still no formation of an abscess, barley can be burned with iodine, brilliant green, medical alcohol (do it extremely carefully so as not to damage the mucous membrane of the eyes).

Your doctor may prescribe a UHF procedure. Ultraviolet light kills the infection, and the infrared part of the spectrum helps to accelerate maturation. By the way, the sun has the same effect. When the abscess begins to form, compresses must be stopped.

The warming compress (hot-water bottle) helps well, this helps to accelerate the maturation of abscesses. If you repeat the procedure regularly, in the morning and evening for 15-20 minutes, then after about two days the barley will open.

How to treat barley in a child

Drops in the treatment of barley

If treatment at an early stage did not help, then you need to start digging into the conjunctival sac .   In this case, the barley bacteria will destroy the substance sulfacetamide, it is contained in albucide.

For the same purpose, drops containing antibiotics are widely used. It can be penicillin and erythromycin in solutions, if the child is allergic to penicillin, then the doctor will most likely recommend replacing it with gentamicin.

Drops are used - this is an antimicrobial agent that is used in many cases. There are new generation antibiotics - and ciprolet, they act on the basis of the substance tobramycin.

It must be remembered that drops are instilled in the conjunctival sac, and not in the eyeball.

What drug and in what dosage can be used, the doctor decides. It is very individual and depends on many factors:

• From the causes of barley;
• The age of the child;
• The general condition of the body.

To the child during this period vitamins C and A are neededThey help restore skin after barley.

Ointments for treatment

Ointments are less common than drops. They are harder to use, especially for a child. But they are no less effective, they also include antibiotics. Commonly used ointments:

They are laid under the eyelid. Tetracycline ointment is better to lay at night, melted and spread over the eyelid, it provokes blurry vision. The ointment does not spread for a long time, but it definitely falls into the place of inflammation. There is also a minus - a dense concentration. But now they release antibacterial gels, for example, blepharogel.

If the disease is accompanied by an increase in temperature, then antibiotic intake is necessary to suppress the infection. They are prescribed by a doctor.

Folk remedies

There are folk remedies that traditional medicine does not refuse. These are all kinds of lotions from decoctions of herbs:

There are several strange folk ways to treat this disease. It happens that they cure, under one condition: they must be trusted, then the placebo effect will work.

• It is necessary to spit in a sore eye (Very often used "method").
• Barley will pass if you show the fig to the growing month.
• It is necessary to tie a thread on the finger, on the opposite side of the sore eye. To pull a thread constantly.
• Draw a ring around the eye.
• Take a small pellet of sulfur and tie it into a woolen cloth, thread the laces and put it on the baby’s chest.
• With a woolen thread, necessarily red, wrap the wrist on the arm opposite from the sore eye.
• Look several times into a dark glass bottle.

Folk methods are listed solely for educational purposes, in no case are recommended for use by the site administration site

Barley Complications

   If you treat barley carefully and properly treat, then there will be no complications. But we must remember:  barley can not be squeezed out, since the infection can spread through the vessels, then meningitis or blood poisoning can begin.

Rarely, but a child’s barley can turn into chronic inflammation of the cartilage of the eyelid, therefore, it is necessary to seriously deal with its treatment.

Preventive actions

Prevention consists primarily in observing the rules of hygiene:

For the prevention of barley, it is necessary:

• Identify chronic diseases on time;
• Timely eliminate sources of infection and inflammatory processes;
• Temper the child;
• More to be in the air;
• Organize a nutritious meal;
• Increase his immunity;
• To carry out the prevention of worms;
• To teach a child to wash his face in the morning with baby or cosmetic soap, for degreasing the edges of the eyelids.

Parents should take their baby’s barley treatment seriously. Try to take all measures at an early stage. Do not treat yourself; consult a doctor.   And most importantly, constantly engaged in prevention, especially since the above preventive measures help to avoid many diseases, not just barley.

Video: barley in the eye of a child (Komarovsky)

Photo - barley in the eye of a child

You can see how barley looks on the eye of a child in a series of photos presented below:

Weak immunity, non-observance of personal hygiene rules, infectious diseases - all this can cause the occurrence of barley in a 2-year-old child, the treatment of which must be carried out under the supervision of a doctor.  Purulent inflammation can appear in the baby both on the upper and lower eyelids. It can be external and internal. The duration of the disease is usually 7 days.

The main reasons for the appearance of barley in a two-year-old child is considered weak immunity and poor hygiene.

Bacteria enter the duct of the sebaceous gland located in the eyelid tissue next to the eyelash hair bulb. They begin to multiply. Because of this, the excretory duct is clogged, the secretion of sebaceous secretion is disrupted. As a result, suppuration occurs on the eyelid.

Typically, barley appears on only one eye of a small child. Sometimes it occurs even several times in the same place. Much less often, it develops on both eyes of the crumbs.

Causes of inflammation

There are many reasons that affect the appearance of barley in a baby. Three of them were named earlier. What other factors influence its development:

1. Hypothermia.
2. Staphylococci.
3. Dysbacteriosis
4. Diabetes.
5. Eye diseases (demodicosis, blepharitis, conjunctivitis).
6. Sinusitis
7. Avitaminosis.
8. Helminthic invasion.
9. Digestive tract diseases.
10. Metabolic disorder.
11. Heredity.

In addition, barley in a one-year-old child may appear due to the fact that he often rubs his eyes with handles. Because of this, dirt gets on the eyelid, and eventually inflammation develops.

How to recognize barley

The eyelid swells first. Then there is swelling and redness. They spread throughout the eye. As a result, a white abscess appears on it. It can reach such a size that it will be difficult for the crumb to open the eye. Because of this, the baby will begin to act up, will constantly scratch the sore spot. He may lose his appetite and disturb sleep. Body temperature may rise. After 3-4 days, the barley will ripen, tear and pus will flow out of it. At this stage, it is important to treat the eye with a special tool so that the infection of the entire eye socket does not occur. After another three days, redness and swelling will disappear.

Most often, inflammation disappears on its own within a week, but there are cases when in order to cope with it, surgical intervention is required.

What complications may arise

Do not take lightly the appearance of barley. It can cause the following diseases:

• sepsis - blood poisoning;
• blepharitis - inflammation of the ciliary edges of the veins;
• meningitis - inflammation of the brain and spinal cord;
• halazion - “frozen” barley;
• abscess of the eyelid - purulent inflammation of the entire eyelid;
• phlegmon of the eye socket - acute inflammation of the entire eye orbit;
• occlusion of the cavernous sinus.

Diagnostic Methods

Due to the fact that the child often rubs his eyes with dirty hands, barley can occur. It is important to monitor the baby's hygiene!

An ophthalmologist can make a diagnosis based on patient complaints, eye examinations, and a history of the patient. To establish the cause of the disease, its variety, the choice of treatment, he can prescribe:

1. Ophthalmoscopy of the eyeball.
2. The immunogram.

He can also take inoculum from the eye to determine the causative agent of the disease and determine the response to antibiotics.

How to cope with a disease

How to treat barley in the eye is a common question among parents of small fidgets.   The first thing to do when symptoms of inflammation appear is to see a doctor.  Not to friends, not to parents, but to a doctor. Only he can prescribe the right treatment. When choosing a medicine, he will focus on age and on the features of the course of the disease.

In no case do not squeeze abscesses and do not use heat compresses!

In the treatment of barley in a child of 2 years of life, drops of Ciprofloxacin and Ophthalmoferon are used. You can also use "Albucid", however, children can begin to be very capricious when using it. This is due to the fact that it can burn eyes. Another commonly assigned drop is Tobrex. They are painless, so you can safely drip them to a child in 1 year. To achieve a quick effect, it is necessary to dig in the eyes 3 times a day, 1 drop. It is necessary to apply the medicine both in one and in the second eye.

You can treat barley in the eye of a child with various ointments. Their use is no less effective than using a drop. You can cure inflammation in children 1-3 years old using erythromycin ointment, as well as Phloxal and Tobrex. The use of tetracycline ointment for children under 8 years is prohibited. To cure inflammation, you should lay the ointment per eyelid 3 times a day.

A baby who is already two years old can use iodine or zelenka to treat barley. However, if the child has not yet learned to close and open his eyes upon request, then this method of treatment will not work.

How else can you help the baby

What should be done so that the effect of treatment comes as soon as possible? What are the popular ways to deal with barley?

1. The application of herbal lotions to a sore spot. For example, it is useful to apply cotton pads dipped in:

• aloe juice, which was mixed with boiled water;
• a decoction of plantain, chamomile or dill seeds.

1. Washing birch decoctions.
2. Sun baths.

Preventative measures

As preventive measures, you need to monitor not only the hygiene of the child, but also pay close attention to the diet. The body should be nourished with elements and substances that are important for the child.

To prevent barley from crumbs, it is necessary:

• to teach him to wash every morning and remove the secret from the corners of his eyes, and also to wash his hands after each walk;
• short cut nails so that dirt does not have time to accumulate in them;
• do not allow vitamin deficiency. As a rule, the baby’s body does not have enough vitamins in the winter, so give him vitamins at this time of year.

Summer is the time of year during which barley most often occurs in children.  The kid tinkers in the sand, plays the ball, bathes in the river. Dirt builds up on his handles. He begins to rub their eyes and as a result, inflammation occurs. Do not allow this. Teach him to use wet wipes and wipe his nose with a handkerchief.

Feb 8, 2017 Anastasia Graudina

Barley is a purulent inflammation on the inner or outer eyelid, which always manifests itself spontaneously and can overtake not only an adult, but also a small child.

Outwardly, it manifests itself in the form of a rather unpleasant, painful, reddish seal. Most often, for obvious reasons, it is children who suffer from it, because their immunity is still not strong enough.

The disease is not contagious - it is not transmitted from person to person. The duration of recovery depends on the strength of the individual protective barrier of the body and the form of inflammation.

What does he happen to be?

Today, medicine distinguishes between two types of disease:

1. Barley on the eye of the external type. It appears due to an inflammatory process that occurs in the sebaceous gland of the eyelid or in the ciliary hair follicle.
2. Barley of the internal type. It appears on the upper or lower eyelid from the inside. The cause of this form of the disease is inflammation of the meibomian gland.

Causes of barley in children

Poor hygiene

One of the main causes of foci of inflammation in the eyes of young children is the failure to observe basic hygiene rules. Dirty hands and face after walking and playing in the sandbox become a real threat to children's health.

If the baby has the habit of rubbing his eyes with dirty hands, sooner or later this can lead to barley.

Wearing contact lenses

An equally common cause of the disease is the child wearing lenses that correct vision.

Weak immunity

Immunity should protect the baby's body from the attacks of bacteria that daily occur in its path. Any malfunction of the child’s immune system leads to the fact that the bacteria located on the skin penetrate deeper and provoke the appearance of various kinds of inflammatory processes, including barley.

Hypothermia

The most common cause of decreased immunity in a child is hypothermia. It provokes a decrease in the protective functions of the body, and the baby becomes more susceptible to all kinds of diseases.

Vitamin deficiency and lack of fresh air

Another reason is a lack of vitamins and fresh air. An unbalanced diet and insufficient number of walks contribute to the deterioration of immunity and increase the risk of morbidity.

Diseases

In addition, quite often children with diabetes and problems with the work of the gastrointestinal tract get barley. Diseases undermine the immune system, and the body becomes less protected against inflammatory diseases and infections.

Hormonal restructuring of the body

In adolescence, barley often occurs due to hormonal changes in the body. In the process of puberty and changes in the work of the endocrine system, the secretion secretion by the sebaceous glands is disturbed.

The consistency of the secret changes, its viscosity increases, which leads to clogging of the excretory ducts of the glands. For the same reason, boys and girls often develop acne.

Staphylococcus aureus

Barley is relatively common in children whose close relatives also suffer from this disease. The reason for this is Staphylococcus aureus, the whole family becomes the carriers of strains of which.

Note that in this case, the treatment of barley can be difficult, since the pathogen is often resistant to antibiotics.

Symptoms of the disease

The most striking signs of barley in a child include:

• redness and swelling of the inner or outer eyelid,
• itching in the area of \u200b\u200bthe lesion,
• swollen lymph nodes
• fever
• excessive weakness
• headache.

What does barley look like?

Outside barley looks like a capsule on the edge of the eyelid, inside of which there is pus. After three to four days, the capsule on the eye will open, and its contents will come out. Internal barley is diagnosed and treated somewhat more difficult, since it forms inside the eyelid.

The inner form is much more dangerous than the outer one. It can provoke the development of phlegmon orbits. Also, thrombophlebitis of the orbital eyelids and purulent meningitis can become a complication of internal barley.

If you find that your child has similar symptoms of inflammation on the eyelid, you should respond in time and start treatment. This will help get rid of the disease much faster.

First aid for barley in a baby

If you find signs of barley in your child’s eye, the first thing you should do is burn a hotbed of inflammation. Cauterization can be done with a cotton swab and alcohol, tincture of iodine or brilliant green (ordinary green).

However, remember, this must be done with extreme caution: during the procedure, the child’s eyes should be closed.

In what cases do I urgently need to see a doctor?

It is not necessary to independently treat the baby if:

1. His temperature rose.
2. The child has a relapse of the disease.
3. The tumor increased in size in three to four days.
4. Barley on the upper or lower eyelid prevents the crumbs from seeing.

If these situations occur, they should immediately take the baby to the doctor. Only a medical examination will allow you to prescribe the right treatment.

Can barley be cured at home?

Warm compresses

Effective methods to combat inflammation in the eyelid at home are warming compresses, which can be done on the basis of hot cotton wool, warm potatoes, cut in half, or chicken eggs.

The most effective and popular folk remedies include the following:

1. A compress of a warming effect from boric acid or a weak decoction of chamomile. It must be applied two to three times a day.
2. Hard-boiled egg, right in the shell. It must be applied every two hours to the site of inflammation.

Precautionary measures

It must be remembered that the compress can be placed only in the first stages, namely on the first and second day after the appearance of barley on the eye. Warming inflammation at the peak of its development is strictly prohibited.

If warming procedures for ripened barley are carried out, the inflammation can spread to nearby tissue and then the whole eye can become inflamed.

Medicinal herbs

Effective homemade recipes for barley in the eye in children based on herbs:

1. Five leaves of plantain should be thoroughly washed with cold water and apply inflammation to the focus in turn. Change the sheet to a new one every five minutes.
2. Burdock root should be ground to a slurry consistency and applied to barley.
3. To reduce pain and relieve swelling, you can prepare eye drops based on the pupil. To do this, you need to take 50 grams of dried eyebright grass, mix it with 50 grams of chamomile and pour two glasses of boiling water. The infusion is prepared for about ten minutes, after which the slurry is evenly laid out on gauze, which should be applied to the inflamed place.

Precautionary measures

When using herbal infusions at home, it is necessary to remember sterility without fail, so that an additional "portion" of microbes does not get into the eye, and bacteria from the focus of inflammation should also not enter the lacrimal ducts.

Dishes used for the preparation of folk remedies should be pre-treated with boiling water. Cooked herbal compress must be allowed to cool to body temperature.

For applying the composition, sterile gauze or a cotton swab should be used. It is forbidden to apply a compress to the entire eye, only the focus of inflammation on the eye should fall under its influence.

Traditional medicine

In addition to folk remedies, for the treatment of barley in children, medicinal ointments and drops of the antibacterial spectrum of action are successfully used.

Remember, self-medication can bring unpredictable consequences, so buy them for your baby only as directed by a doctor.

How to use drops and ointment for the treatment of barley?

The instillation procedure is quite simple. Using a moist cotton sponge, you should clean both eyes of the child in the direction from the nose, and then use the prescribed drops.

For each eye, it is necessary to use a separate fleece, so as not to transfer the infection to a healthy eye.

Before applying the ointment, you must wash your hands thoroughly. The ointment is laid two to three times a day for the affected eyelid of the child.

Ideally, the medical treatment of barley should be supported by a special diet, which will increase the baby's immune strength. Proper nutrition during illness should be based on the consumption of fresh vegetables, fruits, and freshly squeezed juices.

What can not be done during treatment?

1. It must be controlled so that the baby does not rub the sore eye. It is also forbidden to independently touch a sore spot in a child without the need and conduct various kinds of massages;
2. It is strictly forbidden to crush barley to a child. Squeezing pus will only complicate the situation and lead to complications.
3. If inflammation has arisen on the eyelid of a baby who is not yet a year old, it is forbidden to take any measures without a prior medical opinion.

Preventative measures

In most cases, barley infects the organisms of weak children whose immunity cannot withstand harmful bacteria. To increase the resistance of the child's body, it is necessary to take measures that will increase the reliability of barrier protection.

All kinds of vitamin complexes, proper nutrition, morning exercises, hardening and so on will help. The apartment where the child lives must be ventilated daily. Wet cleaning is also required.

Much depends on the hygiene of the baby. From childhood, it should be explained to the child that every morning and evening he needs to wash himself, wash his hands after the street and before eating, as well as after the toilet and if they are dirty.

If you follow these simple preventive measures, you most likely will not have to treat your baby for barley!

In most cases, the cause of the disease is non-compliance with hygiene rules (when a child wipes his face with a dirty towel, a stale handkerchief or rubs his eyes with dirty hands). The appearance of barley is facilitated by dustiness of the air, a decrease in the body's resistance in connection with a catarrhal disease, with hypo- and vitamin deficiencies, with a violation of metabolic processes in tissues, etc.

Symptoms and signs of barley in children

Barley begins with a slight, limited, somewhat painful (when pressed) swelling at the edge of the eyelid. The child is worried about burning or itching in the eye, he has a desire to rub his eyelids. The swelling gradually turns red, swelling of the skin and mucous membrane increases, and soreness increases. A few days after the onset of the disease, a purulent plug forms at the top of this swelling. When the cork is opened, a small amount of pus spills out.

Treatment and first aid for barley in a child

If a child develops barley on the eyelid, one should not strive to cope with the disease on his own, it is most reasonable to seek the help of an optometrist. The doctor will provide the child with qualified assistance, give recommendations individually. If the infection disperses with the flow of blood and lymph throughout the body, a dangerous complication called sepsis will develop. It is strictly forbidden to pierce barley with a needle, safety pin, paper clip, toothpick or other sharp objects. Firstly, at the same time, an additional infection can be introduced into the focus of inflammation, and secondly, you can accidentally, out of awkwardness, seriously damage the organ of vision.

A child whose barley is just starting to form is recommended to provide the following simple help:

• rinse the eyes with warm, clean (boiled) water;
• you can also use a warm, mild furatsilin solution to wash the problem eye. During the washing procedure, you need to ensure that furatsilin from the sick eye does not get into the healthy eye;
• use for washing eyes with barley a warm decoction of chamomile flowers;
• two to three times a day to do hot compresses for an inflamed eyelid. For hot compresses, strong brewing of black long leaf tea can be used. It is effective to use steamed tea leaves in barley (in single bags);
• if you don’t have any of the means mentioned above - for example, when traveling on a train, on an electric train, during a flight on an airplane, during a picnic, etc. - you can use ordinary saliva to treat starting barley. Enzymes contained in saliva have a pronounced bactericidal effect. It is recommended to saliva the edges of a fresh handkerchief and attach it to the inflamed eyelid, hold for 15-20 minutes; however, one should know that saliva should not get into the eye of a child;
• it is also recommended to regularly apply a clove of raw garlic to the inflamed eyelid. Before using the product, remove the transparent skin from the clove. Duration of application - up to a quarter of an hour;
• as an effective anti-inflammatory agent, use freshly squeezed juice of aloe vera leaves;
• folk healers recommend making hot compresses for the child with flax seed. Flaxseed, as you know, retains heat for a rather long time, and heat suppresses infection well (many pathogenic microorganisms that feel good at 36.6 ° C quickly die at a temperature of 37 ° C). In addition, under the influence of heat, the blood and lymph vessels expand, as a result, more blood and lymph flow to the inflamed eyelid, therefore, the body can cope with the infection in the outbreak much easier. Flaxseed is heated, poured into a small bag made from some soft tissue, and this bag is applied to the eyelid for 20-30 minutes;
• traditional medicine recommends heating a towel on a hot teapot, then applying this towel with the warm side to the inflamed eyelid;
• as a remedy, use steam rising above freshly brewed tea (green or black). The procedure is as follows: you need to brew tea in a wide cup, bend low above this cup and slowly blow into it so that the warm evaporations of tea, rising above the cup, act on the eyelid, on which barley is formed;
• use lotion for warm lotions of common flax grass.

Every day, a child comes into contact with a million microbes, but only one percent of them is dangerous to health.

One of these dangerous microbes is Staphylococcus aureus, which provokes inflammation of the eyelids.

In the first place is neglect of the rules of hygiene. Eye contact with sand, dust, dirty water, palm contact after playing outside - this can lead to illness.

Doctors also identify several factors leading to eye inflammation in children:

• Weakened immunity;
• Worms
• Diabetes;
• Eye diseases
• Sinusitis and others.

How to recognize a disease?

The first sign of inflammation is swelling, redness of the eyelid, the eye looks swimming. The child complains of pain, is naughty due to poor health.

Over time, barley breaks out, pus comes out of it, after which recovery comes pretty quickly. Barley can be internal or external, inflammation can affect both the upper and lower eyelids.

Barley on the eye - treatment in children

The main goal of therapy is to neutralize the pathogen. As soon as the vital activity of pathogenic microflora is suppressed, edema, redness and pain will pass. If it was not possible to prevent the multiplication of bacteria at the initial stage of the disease, it is necessary to wait for the abscess to mature. A properly designed course of therapy can accelerate it several times.

Do not be immediately scared if a child has barley in his eye, an ophthalmologist will tell you what to do. Signing up for a consultation is at your earliest convenience. The tests that the doctor will prescribe will reveal the type of bacterium and its level of sensitivity to antibiotics. The course of treatment will be prescribed in accordance with these results. At the same time, the doctor will give recommendations on enhancing immunity, prescribe vitamins and recommend a special menu.

• Albucid (Sulfacyl Sodium) is a medicine that has been tested for many decades with the active substance sodium sulfacetamide monohydrate. Antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory. Instilled 1 drop 4 times a day. The main advantage of these drops is the possibility of use for newborn babies.
• Tobrex is a modern mild drug based on the antibiotic tobramycin without systemic effects on the body. For children from 7 years old, the dosage is 2 drops every 2 hours, up to 7 years - 1 drop 5 times a day. Children under 1 year of age Tobrex is contraindicated.
• Phloxal - a drug with ofloxacin, effective against staphylococcus, mycoplasma, salmonella. Children are prescribed 1 drop every 4 hours. A break is made at night.