Pinkeye, also known as conjunctivitis, is an inflammation of conjunctiva caused by infections, allergies, viruses, clods, bacteria, or a substance that irritated eyes leading to the eye infection. Pinkeye, caused by bacteria or virus is highly contagious and can be spread by touching an infected people, touching the things that are used by the infected people, coughing, or sneezing.
The symptom of pinkeye is commonly that small amounts of blood will spread out over the white part of eyes and can make eyes seem terrible. People usually feel uncomfortable as if there is sand in the eyes. Pinkeye may also be caused by the mother passing to the infant through the birth canal. This is called STD (sexually transmitted disease). Children who are born with pinkeye are easily to wake up in the morning with thick crust sealing the lids together. In that case, a warm towel is used to soften the mucus to help them to be able to open the eyes comfortably. There are also other symptoms, such as more sensitive to light, itchiness, and excessive tearing.
Fortunately, pinkeye is not a very serious disease. Some types of pinkeye can recover by themselves without any medical treatment, though the complication may have a long period to debilitate completely. The most important thing is that they will not risk your eyesight, but still you had better go to see your optometrist immediately. While some eye diseases may seem like pinkeye though actually they are not and may have more eyesight threatening. So they are worthy more concern and treatments.
The treatments of pinkeye vary differently depending on the degree of the eye disease. Povidone-iodine is effective against most bacterial conjunctivitis in the way of standard antibiotic prescription eye drops, though it is used by some optometrists to treat EKC, a special and severe form of viral conjunctivitis. But it is not a good treatment to the viral induced conjunctivitis. Homeopathic remedies, in the form of Similasan Pink Eye Relief eye drops, show its effectiveness in curing the allergic conjunctivitis. However, everyone should remember that all the treatments are required to be carried out under the supervision of your doctor, or else horrible things may happen to your eyes.
A number of years ago, an outbreak of pinkeye in an elementary school created a panic among parents and schools. In those days, if one child got pinkeye, it is not long that half the children in class would be infected by pinkeye. The situation may mainly caused by the unawareness of the prevention to the spreading of pinkeye and not know more about personal hygiene.
Nowadays, people begin to keep an eye on the spread of epidemic and governments take enough measures to overcome the spreading problem. here are some tips to help you to prevent the prevention and spread of pinkeye.
- Wash your hands frequently. A correct way to wash hands is helpful to get rid of dust and bacteria from your body, especially for children, because they like to put their hands into their mouths. So it is better to tell them to wash their hands frequently and to explain them why they should do so. In an effective way, you can teach them to finish washing their hands until the happy birthday song is sung twice.
- Do not share personal items with others. Remember to teach your children not to touch the ill children’s items until they are given a clean bill of health. This is especially true for the contacts wearers. Please do not even try to wear other persons’ lenses or borrow their cases or use their solutions.
- Keep your home clean. Wash pillowcases, and other bedding and linens regularly especially when one of your families is ill. Remember to separate the towels and washcloths items from the rest of your families and wash the towels in hot water to eradicate the bacteria.
- Keep away from pollen. Some kind of pinkeye is caused by allergies, so it is better to limit the pollen contact particularly on heavy pollen days and avoid subjecting to cigarette smoke, smog and car exhaust in your daily life.
- See the doctor as soon as possible. If you suspect that you may be likely to get pinkeye, you should contact a qualified doctor to have a check on you ASAP.
- Reduce the contact to the pinkeye people. This is quite true for public places, like school, theater, etc. School should not allow the children with pinkeye to return to school until they have doctor’s permission to be pinkeye-free.
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