Conjunctivitis - is this too weird?

Both gremlins have conjunctivitis, Mercedes eyes are clearing up but Sienna has huge red patches round her eyes like a panda and her eyes are just about glued together.
So as I'm still lactating (eek!) I squirted some breastmilk into her eyes last night and again this morning. Will it help? I don't know if the fact that I haven't fed them for months makes a difference to the milk I'm producing but there's still plenty of it (I am a very good cow).
The other icky thing is that when I went to do it last night, Sienna tried to latch on. Ewwwww! It creeped me out, but I was also surprised that she even remembered given that she had her last breastfeed at 11 weeks!

Ewwww, yes! *skin crawls* Not that I don't support breastfeeding but it would feel almost incestuous to start it again after stopping so long ago!

it doesn't expire, and it also dosen't really dry up for a long long long time. Jake trys to have a go every now and again, it feels weird, but he dosne't realise you have to suck for the milk to come out so he gives up and goes away. Feels a bit "incestuous" but he is 2!

I never dried up in between having Maya and the gremlins. But then supply was never really an issue for me either, I did express 2l a day at one point

I had to pur 6l down the drain when we realised the gremlins couldn't tolerate it coz I had that much in the freezer. I wish they had milk banks here coz I would gladly have donated it, I went to so much effort to express it, it was heartbreaking throwing it away.

holy moly Emma that is a lot of milk. Jack tried to latch on the other day but it was when he was going through his biting stage so i wasn't so keen lol.

Thats probably the best thing you can put in her eye.

It felt weird the other day when Benjy tried to latch on in the bath.
He's only been weaned for a month (after weaning himself) but it still felt wrong somehow, for him to be trying to do it again, so I can see where you're coming from with it being icky after so long!
Go the breastmilk for their eyes!

LMAO at Ayja, that's so cute, if a little embarassing!

Wow, I had no idea you could keep lactating without feeding....can I ask questions?? Do you get full and have to express or does a little bit just sit there? So curious!!!!!!

Once again,...Im so sorry Isla infected the gremlins.

When I took her to the Dr for it, he said that current research shows that whether u use antibiotic drops or do nothing, it clears up in the same ammount of time -about a week. He said there is no proof to show that using milk, or saline or anything makes it better quicker. So I just wiped away the gunk with a clean warm flannel, like he suggested.

ETA- Fiona, I stopped breast feeding Isla a month ago. Was down to one feed a day before that. They filled up quite a bit each day for about a week, and I was leaking heaps in the shower especially, and having to express a bit in the shower. After about a week, they were no longer sore at all. I still have milk tho, if I try to express, or during sex

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