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Is it ok to have cateract surgery if you are on antibiotics for a sinus infection?
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Instructions: No, it not save to have any intervention on face if you have a sinus infection required antibiotic. Please cancel this surgery.
Answered 11/28/2017
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Check with MD: If you are not coughing or have a fever, many eyeMDs will proceed with the surgery depending on severity of cataracts. Check with eyeMD.
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