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Babies are given eye drops at birth to prevent any infections that the baby may pick up from travelling down the birth canal, because a baby can pick up infections from vaginal secrections from the mother during birth because the birth canal and vagina are not very clean. If eye drops are not given (which in many poor countries they aren't) a baby can get eye infections and even go blind from the infections that he or she picks up during birth.
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What medicated eye drops are put into baby eyes within an hour after birth?
Before antibiotics silver nitrate was put into newborn babies eyes to prevent gonorrhea contraction from the mother.
What colour are babies eyes birth?
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What colour are the babies eyes at birth?
Often, babies are born with blue eyes, which darken in the first few months of life.
What color eyes babies have at birth?
When babies are born their eyes are slate gray to blue, the colour may change over the first year of life.
Why did your baby have very clear eyes at birth?
Babies have very clear eyes because they have not completely developed. When babies are born, they can only see twelve inches in front of them.
Are all newborn's eyes blue?
Caucasian babies' eyes are usually, but not always, blue at birth. The eyes of black people are not usually blue at birth, but brown. Typically, a newborn babies eyes are blue or gray-blue and may not attain their true color until 9-months of age.
Why do hospitals put gel on newborn babies eyes?
The goop is to prevent infection from the birth canal getting into baby's eyes.
How can i treat Green goo coming out of my baby's eyes?
Whenever my babies got that, I would take them to the doctor who would prescribe special eye drops.
Is the eye size remain same from birth to death?
No, babies have smaller eyes. Growth in children includes their eyes. If you look at your baby pictures, your eyes are bigger now than they where then.
What colour are babies' eyes at birth?
Most babies are born with black or dark eyes. As they grow older, their eye colour fades or lightens. A person born with black eyes will probably have brown eyes at the age of 30. And again, a person with a dark indigo eye colour looking so much like black at birth, at the age of 30, they will have medium blue eyes.
Are gerbil babies born with ther eyes open?
No. Their eyes do not open until 17-21 days after birth. They are born deaf and blind without fur.
Are babies color blind at birth?
My sons eyes were oppen imedeately after birth and he seemed to be looking me straight in the eye;
