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What do eye doctors do when treating infection?
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Antibiotics: Like all doctors, we usually use antibiotics if its bacterial, and antiviral meds , if its a treatable virus..... Of course unlike other doctors, most of our medications come in eye drops.
Answered 12/20/2014
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