does this look like a clogged tear duct or pink eye?

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My son woke up like this this morning and I looked it up and the symptoms of a clogged tear duct and pink eye are so similar. He is 12 days old. He doesn't seem like he is in pain.

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Take him to the doctor, that's bad. Try getting all that yellow mucous out too. Yellow means infection.

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If it's that bad I would take him to the doctor and get drops for it. I don't think it's pink eye but it looks pretty bad. Just keep putting warm water on to clean and massage his nose a little bit to help get all the nasty stuff flowing and out. Mine had a clogged duct but it was around the time he got a check up and she said to prescribe drops if it got worse.

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These are his eyes now. Should I take him in? The top eye is the one that was all goopy this morning

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That looks like a tear duct but the difference will be in the whites of his eye is it pink?

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If it's a clogged duct massage under the eye by his nose and if you are breastfeeding put a few drops in his eye a few times a day and it should clear up!

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I'd take him to the doctor. ☹️️

does this look like a clogged tear duct or pink eye?

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