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How do you treat pink eyes?
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Pink eye: A majority of adult pink eye is viral. Kids tend to get more bacterial conjunctivitis or pink eye. There is also allergic causes and irritation or inflammatory causes. Generally, physicians after evaluating you will place the patient on antibiotic eye drops.
Answered 10/12/2012
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Depends: Classic pink eye in children and adults is a viral condition, contagious, best treated with lubricating eye drops and warm soaks. Isolate the child/adult and items which contact the eye secretions to lower spread. Your ophthalmologist can tell you if it is bacterial in which case antibiotics can also be given. If the vision is unaffected, these will clear in 3-10 days mostly.
Answered 10/12/2012
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