![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/mum-told-babys-stye-isnt-dangerous/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/0_baby.jpg&description=Brooke Pearce followed her gut instinct and it helped save her daughter Scarlett's eyesight after a spot on her eye turned out to be more than just the birthmark they were repeatedly told it was A mum whose daughter developed what looked like a stye on her eye has shared the importance of parents following their gut instinct after her child began to lose her sight. Brooke Pearce and her husband Bryan first noticed a mark on their daughter Scarlett's eye when she was around a month old. Brooke explained: "We originally thought it was just a stye, so we just kind of left it hoping that it would go away on its own. We were actually at a friend's wedding - and I have some pretty crazy health anxiety since having our daughter because she was early - and I said to my husband, ' I don't know if I'm overreacting, or if this is getting bigger'." Just two days later, Bryan confirmed that the mark on their infant daughter's eye was "definitely getting bigger". So the parents went to their family doctor to get it checked out. "He told us it was the exact same as the birthmark on her leg and that it was totally fine," explained Brooke. "You see kids with them on their face and their body and they just go away as they grow up." For all the latest on news, politics, sports, and showbiz from the USA, go to The Mirror US Not confident in their consultation the couple went to get a second opinion with a paediatric dermatologist. Brooke said: "We wanted more answers and weren't really concerned with the visual appearance of it or what people might think. It as more that she would get upset or frustrated at times, and as it got bigger, she wasn't able to open her eye all the way." Brooke and Bryan were concerned about whether their daughter was able to see, so they asked doctors what the impact on her sight was. Brooke said; "Hers seemed to be growing overnight. It was getting os large that she would wake up in the morning and her eyelid would be fully closed. She couldn't see out of i){kind=link}
Brooke Pearce followed her gut instinct and it helped save her daughter Scarlett’s eyesight after a spot on her eye turned out to be more than just the birthmark they were repeatedly told it was
A mum whose daughter developed what looked like a stye on her eye has shared the importance of parents following their gut instinct after her child began to lose her sight.
Brooke Pearce and her husband Bryan first noticed a mark on their daughter Scarlett’s eye when she was around a month old. Brooke explained: “We originally thought it was just a stye, so we just kind of left it hoping that it would go away on its own. We were actually at a friend’s wedding – and I have some pretty crazy health anxiety since having our daughter because she was early – and I said to my husband, ‘ I don’t know if I’m overreacting, or if this is getting bigger’.”
Just two days later, Bryan confirmed that the mark on their infant daughter’s eye was “definitely getting bigger”. So the parents went to their family doctor to get it checked out. “He told us it was the exact same as the birthmark on her leg and that it was totally fine,” explained Brooke. “You see kids with them on their face and their body and they just go away as they grow up.”
For all the latest on news, politics, sports, and showbiz from the USA, go to The Mirror US