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It's okay to use gentamicin to treat pink eye right?
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Not helpful: Gentamicin is a very good bacterial antibiotic. Pink eye is caused by a virus and gentamicin will have no effect on it. The old joke runs: Pink eye untreated lasts a week but if you use an antibiotic like gentamicin it will take only seven days.
Answered 6/15/2014
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