My Amazing “Pink Eye” Cure
No more pink eye!
I read in one of my parenting magazines all of the benefits of breast milk. Not only is it good for the baby’s digestive system it also has medicinal purposes and can help cure eczema and pink eye. I thought this was pretty cool and shared the article with a girl friend of mine who has eczema. She started using her breast milk on her hands and found amazing results. She swears it works.
My daughter got pink eye when she was 3 months old. I started using my breast milk on her but then chickened out and went in to the doctor who confirmed that, yes, it was pink eye and gave me the antibiotics to cure it.
He also told me that pink eye is a cold in the eye and if my daughter had a cold or touched the hand of someone who had a cold and then rubbed her eye she’d get pink eye.
Two months later I went home for a week to visit my family and give the grandparents time with Nora. Nora got pink eye again and we were hours and hours and hours away from her doctor. I didn’t want to cut our trip short and I definitely didn’t want to go to the ER for pink eye.
I feel a little funny telling you all this, but I’ll tell you the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I researched breast milk curing pink eye on the Internet and began putting my breast milk in Nora’s eye at least three times a day. I figured that I would do it while I was in DC and if I it didn’t clear up in a few days I would cut my trip short and take her to the doctor. I never ended up needing to take Nora to the doctor because the breast milk cured her pink eye. Crazy, huh?
Do you have any weird remedies that you’d like to share?
Wow, I knew breast milk was jam-packed with nutrients and antibodies, but as a pink eye cure too? That is so funny…and I will use this idea in the future!
Hey Sarah,
I agree; it is too funny! I was almost too embarrassed to tell everyone about it, but decided to tell since it might help another Mom in her time of need.