Pinkeye

[moose7117]

Has anybody here suffered from pinkeye ?

i caught a dose about a week ago and both the eye clinic and local hospital were not that worried.

They prescribed drops and antibiotics and said wait it out and come back in a week.

 

i have found this quite surprising and as it has not abated, i am asking for other peoples experiences.

 

Moose

[fredwiggy]

6 minutes ago, moose7117 said:

Has anybody here suffered from pinkeye ?

i caught a dose about a week ago and both the eye clinic and local hospital were not that worried.

They prescribed drops and antibiotics and said wait it out and come back in a week.

 

i have found this quite surprising and as it has not abated, i am asking for other peoples experiences.

 

Moose

This might help..........https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/pink-eye-quick-home-remedies

[scubascuba3]

Hopefully the eye clinic knows best but if antibiotics aren't working go back or go somewhere else

[KhunLA]

Had it, and it will pass on it's own.  I didn't even bother with meds or drops.  

 

Antibodies may or may not help, depending if it is a viral or bacterial infection.

 

For bacterial, Cipro is available in TH, although, if not prescribed that already, do NOT, start using.   I actually did that once, even waited till the half life was supposedly well past, and started one penicillin based antibody after a previous one.  Big F'g mistake, and my only oops of self medicating for decades of.

 

Talk about muscle & joint pain ... Ouch.

[BritManToo]

I just use the drops from the pharmacy.

About 40bht.

[Sheryl]

Pink eye (if that is what you ،have) is often viral. But antibiotic drops may stiill be given as secondary bacterial infections can occur. 

 

It can easily last 2 weeks.

 

If it goes much beyond that, an allergic rather than infective  origin may need to be considered. 

 

 

[scubascuba3]

I got minor conjunctivitis a couple weeks ago, coincidentally after I went to a hospital for an eye test and you use those machines, my guess is I caught it from a machine. We know they are good at cleaning floors but other things not so good