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What are the best antiviral medicine to take to help clear up herpes in the eye?

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See your doctor: Herpes infections in the eye are considered to be very serious and so I think it best to see either your primary doctor or an eye doctor for treatment recommendations Here is a fact sheet on herpes eye infections http://patient.info/health/herpes-simplex-eye-infection

Dr Sokol agreed

Answered 11/24/2016

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