Congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction

ABSTRACT

Fifty infants below 3 months of age with 62 eyes suffering from congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction were divided at random into two groups each contained 31 eyes. The first group was treated with gentamycin eye ointment and massage under pressure for their lacrimal passages and the second group with gentamycin eye ointment onlyTwenty two of the first group and 14 of the second group were cured before the age of 6 months. The remaining 26 eyes and another 34 new cases of congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction over 6 months of age were subjected to probing of their lacimal passages under general anesthesia