When you're a parent, nothing breaks your heart more than seeing your child in distress. Between the normal range of infections and viruses that can cause conjunctivitis in infants (commonly termed "pink eye") and the fact that as many as 20% of children are born with congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction (blocked tear ducts), the chance of having to battle red, goopy eyes in infancy is...

Are your eyelids rimmed in red, itchy, or irritated?  Do you wake up with crusting along your eyelid margin?  Is your vision blurry sometimes between blinks? If you answered yes to one or all of these questions, you may have a common ocular condition called blepharitis.  Like most medical terminology it sounds intimidating, but the word roughly just means eyelid inflammation.  Winter months...