Vampire's eyes, or 11 answers to questions of conjunctivitis

What is conjunctivitis?
Conjunctivitis is an inflammation of an external cover of an eye. 40% of complaints to ophthalmologists are connected with its infectious form.

Whether dangerous this disease?
Conjunctivitis is treated quickly enough and does not cause complications only under one condition: timeliness. The started conjunctivitis left without medical examination and treatment can be very dangerous. Therefore at the first symptoms of conjunctivitis it is necessary to see urgently a doctor, to have examination, to undertake the appointed treatment and rules of hygiene, to eliminate if necessary and opportunities the allergen which caused it. At complications conjunctivitis treat in the conditions of a hospital. The started forms of a disease can lead to serious problems with sight, develop into a chronic stage up to total loss of sight!

What main symptoms of conjunctivitis?
Except the reddening of eyes which is already mentioned in the beginning of article, naggers, the eyelashes which stuck together after a dream, mucous or purulent allocations from eyes, dacryagogue, morbidity and/or a swelling of eyes can be other symptoms of conjunctivitis.

Why there is conjunctivitis?
Viruses, fungi, bacteria, infection, allergic reaction, clamidiosis and the general decrease in resilience of the immune system can be the cause of conjunctivitis. Each of reduced forms of a disease has the features of treatment which is appointed by the ophthalmologist.

It is clear, that allergic conjunctivitis arises owing to allergic reaction to any activator: pollen, dust, cosmetics, food, contact lenses, medicines, household chemicals, direct sunshine, etc. Cold, dacryagogue, an itch, morbidity, puffiness of eyes, rashes on skin or even bronchial asthma can be the satellite of this form of a disease. Sometimes allergic conjunctivitis demands additional consultations from the allergist and the dermatologist.

Adenoviruses which incubatory period can extend up to 8 days are the reason of viral conjunctivitis. At the same time at once both eyes, as a rule, are surprised. Satellites of this form of a disease puffiness, morbidity, lachrymation and redness of eyes, sometimes existence of a silizisto-purulent film.

Fungal conjunctivitis often arises after contact with the animals, vegetables, fruit or people which are carriers of drozhzhepodobny, mold or other types of fungi.

Bacterial conjunctivitis children most often have. Very often there is it because the child rubs eyes dirty hands. Also stay in the dusty room can appear the reason of bacterial conjunctivitis. The most dangerous causative agent of bacterial conjunctivitis is the chlamydia bacterium.

Infectious conjunctivitis is provoked by various infections. Often the same infection that is the causative agent of quinsy, measles, can infect in parallel and an eyeball.

Whether infectious this disease?
The majority of forms of conjunctivitis – infectious for people around. Therefore if you have a suspicion of conjunctivitis, it is one couple of days better to stay at home until the disease begins to pass, and the attending physician will not confirm it.

The allergic form of conjunctivitis is not infectious.

Whether it is possible to cure conjunctivitis folk remedies?
If it is not about an infectious form of conjunctivitis, then sometimes folk remedies happen enough in fight against this illness. But in case conjunctivitis is caused by an infection, not to do without pharmaceutical medicines.

Often the ophthalmologist appoints drug treatment in parallel with national. Quite well proved in treatment of conjunctivitis of washing of eyes by means of camomile infusion. At the same time for each eye it is necessary to use a separate wadded tampon to avoid a recurrence. Except a camomile sage infusion quite will be suitable for similar washings. Prepare such infusions as follows:
2-3 teaspoons of grass collecting fill in with half-liter of hot water and cool to room temperature.

At use of grass infusions it is necessary to pay attention that them we simply wash out eyes, but we do not do compresses and bandages. In the latter case it is possible to provoke the environment for reproduction of new bacteria.

Than to treat?
The choice of medication for treatment of conjunctivitis will depend on a disease form. Therefore to come to drugstore and to ask conjunctivitis medicine, without having visited previously the doctor, it will not turn out. Medicine which will be effective in fight against an infectious form of conjunctivitis will be absolutely helpless in a case with the allergic nature of "the vampire's eyes".

In case the infection is the reason of conjunctivitis, the ophthalmologist can appoint antibiotic tetracycline ointment. It is applied on a lower eyelid several times a day and surely before going to bed. But it is necessary to remember that tetracycline ointment is contraindicated at an allergy to its components and at fungal diseases.

Also various drops successfully cope with an infectious form of conjunctivitis:
floksat, sofradeks, etc. If treatment to begin in time, then for the second day morbidity of eyes, their reddening and an itch will take place. And as the urgent help to a sore eye it is possible to dig 20% albucid on couple of drops 2-3 times a day.

Struggle with allergic conjunctivitis by the allergen elimination which caused it and also intake of antihistamines.

What contraindications at conjunctivitis?
- self-treatment;
- visit of public places;
- visit of the pool;
- non-compliance with rules of personal hygiene.

How many does the disease last?
At the operational request for the qualified medical care symptoms of conjunctivitis leave next day. Duration of treatment is 1-2 weeks depending on a disease stage.

How it is correct to drip drops in eyes and to use eye ointment?
If it is impossible to open eyes and to dig drops on the middle of an eyeball, it is possible just to make it in an internal corner of an eye. As soon as eyes open, medicine right there to be distributed on all eye. In the same way, if ointment does not manage to be applied on a lower eyelid, it is possible just to squeeze out its small amount on eyelashes. Ointment will melt and will get on the inflamed site of an eye.

How not to allow?
Preventive measures in prevention of developing of conjunctivitis are:
- personal hygiene (need, and training of the children, as often as possible to wash hands and not to rub dirty hands of an eye);
- intake of vitamins;
- hardening;
- airing of rooms in which we are;
- regular bathtubs with soap for the child's toys;
- regular change of towels and bed linen;
- use only the allocated towel, napkins and bedding;
- washing only by boiled water.

Follow these simple rules, and then nobody will be able alarmed to tell in your party: "Something at you an eye red, as at the vampire …".