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If you have an eye infection on one eye, does plucking out all the eyelashes in the infected eye reduce the infection?

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Dr. Michael Ein answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

No: Do not do this. It will help nothing.

Answered 11/15/2012

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Dr. Daniel Pierre answered

Probably not.: Eye doctors tend to think of better ways of treating such a thing.

Answered 10/3/2016

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A member asked:

If you have an eye infection on one eye, does plucking out all the eyelashes in the infected eye reduce the infection?

2 doctors weighed in across 2 answers

Dr. Michael Ein answered

Dr. Daniel Pierre answered

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