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No idea on the ointment but for the breastmilk I would prob express a bit and then use a medicine dropper. Hope she is better soon!

@Foodnerd81: oh yeah, I've never even tried to get it in her eye - just a quick swipe over her lashes on a closed eye corner to corner and you're good. I don't think she was in pain - she had it one time as a baby and I don't think it bothered her at all. She's had a twice as a toddler and she gets afraid/upset when she wakes up and her eye is glued shut but once that's cleared and she can open it again, she's fine. Ours has always been a symptom of something else - cold, ear infection, whatever, so that stuff bothers her, but not the actual eye.

I was using breastmilk on my newborn to clear up a blocked tear duct and I was just hand-expressing it onto his face. It might be trickier with a wiggly older baby though.

R got this around the same age when his older brother spat in his eye when he was laying on the ground. Yes, you read that correctly. I think it took about a week for it to totally clear (but not before it spread from one eye to the other...). We just held him down morning and night and got it in well then and I feel like I had to do it once on my own and just did my best.

My 5 month old just got bacterial pink eye, although we got drops for it. My son had the gel many years ago & we did the smear method. For my daughter, I've been expressing milk into a washcloth and then wiping/cleaning her eye with it. The drops worked right away for us and so far we've avoided everyone getting it (but I still feel like my eyes are weeping and every eye booger my son has is suspicious!)