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What are the treatments for pink eye?

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Laura D. Cook
Assistant Professor of Opthalmology, University of Virginia-Department of Opthalmology
www.healthsystem.virginia.edu  
434-924-5485

The Ophthalmology Residency Training Program at the University of Virginia was separated from Otolaryngology in 1947. Since 1978, it has been under the leadership of a full-time academic faculty. The Department currently serves as the ophthalmic referral center for central and western Virginia and parts of West Virginia, North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.

What are the treatments for pink eye?

Laura D. Cook, M.D., Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, describes pink eye and its four common symptoms.

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Host: What are the treatments for pinkeye?

Dr. Laura D. Cook: It depends on the cause of the pinkeye. If you have a viral cause of pinkeye, unfortunately, there aren't any treatments that actually resolve the condition. It's mostly supportive care and so blend artificial tears without preservatives, cold compresses, things of that nature. For bacterial conjunctivitis, actually antibacterial, antibiotics will treat that and it's a topical drop for the most part. There are two specific conditions which are actually treated with oral antibiotics. If it's an allergic cause, the allergy is at rest whether it's with anti-allergy eye drops or just supportive care in terms of blend preservative free artificial tears and cold compresses and then lastly, if it's toxic, it depends on the response. Removing the drop or the toxin is often enough.

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