Taking care of Master C’s eyes with Dentinox

When you have a baby to look after it soon becomes apparent that a large amount of your time will actually be spent keeping them clean and healthy. As well as all the nappy changes and baths you also end up spending quite a bit of your time thinking about things like nappy rash, cradle cap, weird bits of dry skin and how on earth you’re ever going to get a toothbrush near their mouth. At first it can take quite some getting used to. Working out how to deal with some of these ailments can be a bit tricky at first, especially until you know what’s available in the shops to help you.

One little job that I always found a bit tricky was making sure that the children’s eyes were clean. When they’re really little they just get upset when you go anywhere near them, but then when they get a bit older they end up doing things like this at meal times…

… and suddenly you’re trying to deal with the fact that they’ve got yoghurt or puree in their eyes and they’re (understandably) crying because it’s hurting them. They advice I’ve always been given for cleaning a baby’s eyes is to use cooled boiled water on a piece of clean cotton wool, but let’s be honest here – who really has some cooled boiled water around when you need it?

I was therefore very interested to hear that Dentinox had brought out some new eye wipes as part of their range. These saline wipes are individually wrapped and a very simple to use. The fact that they come individually wrapped also means that you can take a couple with you when you’re out and about in case you need them. 

Master C quite regularly rubs food into his eyes, especially when he’s tired, so I found it really handy to have these eye wipes to make sure that his eyes were properly clean before he went down for his afternoon nap. Interestingly, in the time that we were testing them with his, his three year old sister also managed to get yoghurt in her eye one day and it was so handy to be able to pull one of these out and clean it for her straight away. In the past I would probably have been faffing about with a flannel or wet tissue or similar, which definitely wouldn’t have been the best thing. I most certainly didn’t have any cooled boiled water to hand!

Babies tend to get sticky eyes more than older children due to the size of their tear ducts. Even at fifteen months I’ve noticed this with Master C’s eyes from time to time, especially after naps or in a morning. These wipes were great from removing dried on “sleep” residue in a morning and it was good to see that they were moist enough to do so without having to rub hard.

There was an added bonus when reviewing these wipes. For months Master C has been a complete pain when it comes to me changing his nappy, refusing to lie down and then constantly trying to roll over. A box of these Dentinox wipes proved to be the perfect distraction during a nappy change. He’s spend a while trying to open the box and get the wipes out and then post nappy change spent a happy five minutes posting them all into the gap between his changing table and his cot. I’m pretty sure there will be some health and safety message somewhere about how these aren’t a toy etc etc, but to be honest with you, the fact that they’ve provided me with some hassle free nappy changes is another huge bonus! Thanks Dentinox.

Disclaimer: This review post was brought to you in as part of a project with BritMums. I received compensation for this review, but all opinions are my own.