Michael is doing so much better now. This afternoon he just started screaming and crying in pain "my eye! my eye!" His eye was swelling and turning red... He was holding a new Firebelly Frog that we had picked up at the store the night before so I didn't know if he held the frog to close to his eye, or what.... I began washing out his eye for the next 5 minutes with water but he complained that the pain was getting worse. I didn't have saline solution so the only thing I could do was take him to the E.R. They put an orange dye in his eye to look for an abrasion but didn't find any, so the Dr. concluded that he just had a bad reaction to the frog. Apparently Michael had rubbed his eye when he was playing with the frog because he was tired, and whatever was on the frog got into his eye. Thank God he is fine and his vision is back to normal. We have to give him antibiotic eye drops three times a day to avoid any bacterial infection from happening, but he deals with those pretty well. I'm so glad things are ok and back to normal. We still wash our hands after handling the frog. Poor little guy......
Michael is doing so much better now. This afternoon he just started screaming and crying in pain "my eye! my eye!" His eye was swelling and turning red... He was holding a new Firebelly Frog that we had picked up at the store the night before so I didn't know if he held the frog to close to his eye, or what.... I began washing out his eye for the next 5 minutes with water but he complained that the pain was getting worse. I didn't have saline solution so the only thing I could do was take him to the E.R. They put an orange dye in his eye to look for an abrasion but didn't find any, so the Dr. concluded that he just had a bad reaction to the frog. Apparently Michael had rubbed his eye when he was playing with the frog because he was tired, and whatever was on the frog got into his eye. Thank God he is fine and his vision is back to normal. We have to give him antibiotic eye drops three times a day to avoid any bacterial infection from happening, but he deals with those pretty well. I'm so glad things are ok and back to normal. We still wash our hands after handling the frog. Poor little guy......
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Wow! I'm surprised you kept the frog! So glad it had a good outcome. My little boy did something similar the other night yelling "My eye hurts!". I took him to the medicine cabinet and couldn't find any eye drops so I made him put his eye under running water and whatever was bothering him came out. Your post just reminded me to buy eye drops. Thanks for the reminder and the lesson not to buy any firebelly frogs. Hee hee!
Well....I just discovered last night that we're down to one firebelly frog! We bought two of them so I'm wondering if during the process of panic yesterday we lost the one that Michael was holding. Poor lil' froggy.... We have two cats so I'm sure he's a gonner now... :-( Eeeeewh!
Oh no! I'm glad your little man is ok! I used to have a kitty and she liked to run out of the house and find "presents" to leave by the front door for me :(
Awwgh....poor little guy is right! I hope he is doing better now.
Poor guy! That must have been scary. And a trip to the ER is never fun!
Elle
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