For the past 3 mornings Autumn's trach secretions have been slightly thick but I've been giving her a Xopenex treatment to break it up and then she is fine the rest of the day with thin secretions again. Yesterday afternoon though when she woke up from her nap she had yellow-green junk coming out of her eyes and they were swollen and red all around her eyelids. She's had allergy issue like this before but not this bad. Every 5 minutes I would clean her eyes and then it would all start oozing out again. Thankfully our pedi has an after hours clinic and were able to see her that afternoon. As soon as the dr. saw Autumn she knew right away it was allergies. She said that if the sinuses get blocked in her nose and her nose is not running then it will start coming out of her eyes. Her ears looked great though so we were pleased with that news. She also started having the sinus back-up soming out of her trach as well..her lungs still sound fine. So, they have started her on Zyrtec once a day for allergies and prescribed her some eyes drops. She looks just pitiful though with her red, swollen, junky eyes! Hopefully she will just do a lot of sleeping today. 
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