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What should I do if my child's eyelashes stand upside down?
(1) the treatment of infant trichiasis:

Because some infants are fat, with flat nasal roots and hypoplasia, and some children have epicanthus or epicanthus, it can cause trichiasis or entropion of the lower eyelid, and the lighter ones can heal themselves with age. Because the baby's eyelashes are generally small and soft, the irritation symptoms are generally not obvious. When conservative treatment fails, surgery can be considered, usually after the child is 3 years old. Some children with congenital entropion, with the growth of age, the development of the bridge of the nose, often can disappear on their own. Generally, you are not in a hurry to do surgery, and you can often peel off your lower eyelids. Sometimes they can put adhesive tape on the lower eyelid (but rarely used, adhesive tape can cause children's delicate skin allergies, rashes or erosion). In addition, it should also be used with anti-inflammatory eye drops and eye drops to promote corneal epithelial repair.

If the eyelashes severely irritate the cornea at the age of 5 ~ 6, and there are many tears, you can consider surgery. Younger children can use suture correction, and use the force of suture traction to pull the eyelid margin outward. This method is simple, short and safe, but it is easy to relapse, and some patients relapse after months or years. Partial excision of lower eyelid skin and orbicularis oculi muscle is feasible for older patients with severe entropion. This operation method has high success rate and lasting effect, but it needs to use lower eyelid incision or upper eyelid incision, and the general anesthesia time is slightly longer. Some patients will leave scars on the lower eyelid after operation, and some patients will leave the appearance of double eyelids on the lower eyelid. Most parents of children are afraid of "surgery" and are more likely to accept suture surgery as a "stopgap measure" to slow down trichiasis stimulation.