For Educational Use Only – Fair Use – Optometrist Dr. Elise Brisco and pediatrician Dr. Jim Sears discuss the symptoms of pink eye and how to prevent it.rn
When you get red eyes or even pink eyes sometimes the question is is it an infection is it something different so how do you know as a mom it’s really important because conjunctivitis or pink eye is pretty common about ten percent of kids will get that throughout their their childhood so but if it’s pit you know just because they have goop in their eye doesn’t mean
It’s an infection a lot of times kids will just have something like this basically morning mucus eye boogers or there’s a medical term for it room basically it’s kind of solidified tears that have been there overnight they get all mucousy a little bit crusty maybe and one of the keys to this is you see there’s no redness in the eye all right and if you were go and
Wipe this mucus away it wouldn’t come back and tell the next day okay next morning when that’s it those are the two keys to know it’s just ai boogers now if it’s pinkeye or an infection you see you’re going to have a lot more goop it’s gonna be a little thicker and it’s often yellow or greenish and there’s uh there’s obviously the redness a little bit of redness
In the whites of their eye and then you go to wipe away this goop an hour later its back that’s the sign that it’s conjunctivitis time to see the doctor and i always tell my parents too that it looks kind of like tapioca vanilla pudding the discharge that you get but you know it’s really really contagious and that’s the main takeaway point from this in fact if i
See one child in my practice usually several their classmates will come in also with an eye infection and then their parents get it and sometimes even their pets get it so if you suspect that your child has an eye infection keep them home from school so they don’t spread it to everybody and then a couple of tips to minimize getting a bacterial conjunctivitis is
Teach your children not to wipe their eyes after they wipe their nose do you see her kids doing that all the time yeah i’m two year old and he’s always doing this and then he rubs his eyes and wears swim goggles while you’re swimming so in case the pool is contaminated you don’t get an infection and then if your doctor prescribes antibiotic drops for it make sure
You take it for the full seven days because otherwise if your eyes look great in two days but you still have a little bit of bacteria left it’ll yes it comes back stronger and resistant to the antibiotic because you didn’t get rid of it all in the first place and while it’s getting better a nice warm compress to the icon it help ease the swelling and get a rid of
Some of that fat mucus in contacts are so common nowadays would you not agree this eye and the very first one over there where there’s a lot of the redness that whether it’s from irritation or other things be a good time to take a break from your contacts use your glasses because i’ve seen people who have this type of picture clinically and they’re still wearing
Their contacts because they don’t like how they look in their glasses but you’ve got to take the contacts out because all you’re going to do is when you put them back in after this reinfect yourself you know what if your eyes red but just red in one area instead of the whole eye then it could indicate a whole host of other problems there’s something called epis
Clear itis which could mean that you have rheumatoid arthritis so you have red eyes but you really have rheumatoid arthritis or you could have lupus and in women it could mean hormonal changes or even irritable bowel syndrome
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Conjunctivitis Medical Course By Abihail Abihu
