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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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No: Do not do this. It will help nothing.
Answered 11/15/2012
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Probably not.: Eye doctors tend to think of better ways of treating such a thing.
Answered 10/3/2016
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