ABO hemolytic disease is a newborn condition related to blood types, commonly occurring when the mother has blood type O and the baby has blood type A or B. In such cases, the mother’s immune system may produce antibodies that pass through the placenta into the baby’s bloodstream, destroying the baby’s red blood cells and causing hemolysis.
For a 4-month-old baby, the left eye has newborn dacryocystitis. After multiple eye washes with medication (about 20 times), the condition is only partially improved, described by the doctor as ’not fully unobstructed’. Most of the medication flows back out of the eye, with only a small amount of fluid draining through the nose (unknown if it’s medication or tears from the right eye, as the baby cries heavily during the procedure, resulting in a lot of tears). Each time the tear duct is flushed, a small amount of pus comes out of the eye, ranging from white to pale yellow. Initially, rifampin eye drops were used (at 1 month old, used for about two weeks, with a noticeable reduction in blood vessels in the eye).
