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A 37-year-old male asked:
Dr. Jonathan Adleranswered
36 years experience
Ignore: Have yearly eye exams. Wear glasses to protect eyes. This is safer than contact lenses.
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Most likely virus: These symptoms sound viral in nature. You can get cough, congestion and conjunctivitis from a virus. For the eyes best treatment is artificial tears f... Read More
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A 23-year-old female asked:
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Congenital, trauma: Congenital nystagmus you are born with. Nystagmus can also happen from closed head trauma.Also diabetes, multiple sclerosis and neurological side effe... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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Sinus infections: The yellow discharge id due to bacteria, usually h, influenza, staph, or strep. The bad breath can be from postnasal drip and the bacteria which smell... Read More
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A 29-year-old female asked:
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Flush with tears: If eye becomes red with discharge see eye doctor to get antibiotic drops.
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A 25-year-old female asked:
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Fluctuating weakness: Myasthenia is a neuromuscular disease characterized by fluctuating weakness, not all muscles are affected at the same time or to similar degrees.
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A 35-year-old male asked:
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Yes: Make sure your retinal doctor treats any area of week retina with laser. You may have areas callied lattice degeneration . If the lattice has holes in... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
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Chemacal abrasion: This is likely a chemical conjuntivitis and corneal irritation. That is why cold air bothers eye because it dries out an already irritated cornea. You... Read More
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A female asked:
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No and yes: Glycolic acid 50% is a strong peel. If you get it too close to eyes you could burn your corneas. I would have it performed in a doctors office under a... Read More
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A 37-year-old male asked:
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Ignore: Always protect your good eye. Interestingly people with amblyopia do have some depth perception.
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A 31-year-old female asked:
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Could have fistula: I'm not quite sure what you mean. If you do saline nasal rinse it will be tasted in your throat it won't come out other side of nose. The two sides of... Read More
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A 18-year-old male asked:
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Sinus disease: The pressure feeling in your head could be due to full frontal sinus either from virus or bacterial infection.May need to have MRI of head and sinuses... Read More
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A 36-year-old female asked:
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Sounds correct: All these symptoms are most likely sinus related ct scan will show this and any other abnormality causing your headaches.We always diagnose the most o... Read More
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A 25-year-old male asked:
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Yes lymph nodes swel: Infection causes lymph nodes to swell especially the one nearest the infection.The neck lymph nodes would be the closest to tonsils and sinuses. They ... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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Yes you can detect t: With indirect ophthalmoscopy you can detect intraocular tumors. If a thorough indirect exam is performed it is likely tumors will be seen. Of course i... Read More
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A 24-year-old male asked:
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Ear infection: This could be inner ear infection which could create balance problems. Your stiff neck could be due do swelling of the lymph nodes from the infection.... Read More
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A 30-year-old female asked:
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Yes: If fluid gets into eustachian tubes you can get vertigo. If vertigo persists you should see ENT doctor.
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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No: The only ways to fix myopia are eyeglasses, contact , lenses, corneal molding using contact lenses, and refractive surgery such as lasik or prk.
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See your doctor: Most viruses do clear on there own. There is antiviral medicines now available such as tamaflu which could shorten the course of disease. You should d... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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Thrush: This could be thrush, which is a fungal infection of the tongue this can be treated with anti fungal mouth washes'.
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A 23-year-old female asked:
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Abcess: It could be an abcess that needs antibiotics and possibly incision and drainage.
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A 36-year-old female asked:
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Sinus infection: Symptoms classic for sinus infection . May need long course of oral antibiots and mucus thinning meds. Would definitely see ent.
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A 17-year-old female asked:
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Stop use of cosmetic: After completely stopping cosmetics. Try using hypoallergenic brands slowly.
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A 46-year-old female asked:
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Orbital problem: I would see anophthalmic orbital specialist.Ou probably need an MRI of the head and orbits. There could be something pressing behind the eye causing e... Read More
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A 32-year-old female asked:
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Possibly but not lik: Twiching of eyelid can due to several things. Most commonly strees physial or emotional. Second most common would be eye irritation, such as dry eye o... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
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Infection: Mosqitos can carry severe infections. You need to have the blisters looked at and cultured. You also need blood tests to check for infections carried ... Read More
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A 68-year-old male asked:
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Dry eyes: It sounds funny that when eyes seem wet that this is most common symptoms of dry eye.We have two types of tears. Normal basal tears that wet the eye e... Read More
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A 25-year-old female asked:
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Atropine dilation: A dilated exam is important before cataract surgery to make sure there are no diseases in the back of the eye. For example diabetic reitna problems, g... Read More
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A 22-year-old male asked:
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Headaches,: If you leave knotted musles alone and don't get massage or take muscle relaxant you would get headaches and neck pain.
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A 48-year-old member asked:
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Sinus infection: Mucinex (guaifenesin) might have thinned out mucus enough to let bacteria pass through from an underlying bacterial infection this would cause a weird... Read More
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A 17-year-old female asked:
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Blepharitis: What you describes sounds like blepharitis. Blepharitis is an inflammatory condition of eyelids in which the oil glands in the lids get clogged. Treat... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Burns eye and lung: Bleach is a base. This can cause burns to your corneas making eyes red and to your lungs causing coughing.For the eye irritation see eye doctor and fo... Read More
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A 16-year-old female asked:
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Could be: Could also be viral infection.
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Apr 29, 2014
Top-notch Ophthalmologist. Highly recommended.
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Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Adler is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Adler is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Thank you, your answer was very helpful! I have none of these conditions,.so I'm hoping I can figure I it out
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Thanks for your quick reply! Ive been taking amoxicillin its not working I still feel low of fatigu
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Thank you, your answer was very helpful! Thanks Dr.Adler.Didn't know 2 types tears. Thank you.
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