pink eye home treatment?

Question

12 yrs and pinkeye go to doctor??

Answer 1

Hi Pink

Here are some remedies to heal your issue.

Causes of Conjunctivitis
The primary causes of conjunctivitis are allergies, infection, poor diet, nutritional deficiencies, and stress.

The use of pharmaceutical drugs can also cause conjunctivitis, as well as other types of vision problems. These include antihistamines, diuretics, oral contraceptives, steroids, chlorpromazine, digoxin, ethambutol, gold (used to treat arthritis and lupus), haloperidol, hydroxychloroquine sulfate, and tetracycline.


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Natural Cures

Ayurveda: According to Ayurvedic theory, most vision problems are due to digestive disorders. Attention is given to regular eye exercises, as well as the use of the herbs amla, licorice, and triphala, and a diet rich in organic, whole food with abundant quantities of antioxidant rich vegetables such as carrots and spinach.

Diet: Emphasize a diet of organic, whole foods, with plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. Antioxidant vegetables include bell peppers, carrots, celery, parsley, spinach, tomatoes, yellow squash, and dark-green leafy vegetables, such as chard, collards and kale. Fruit high in anti-oxidants include berries, especially the dark rich colored berries, purple and red grapes, plums, cherries, mangos, melons and citrus fruit. Organic egg yolks are also recommended because they are rich in carotenoids, an important class of antioxidants. It is best to eat soft, rather than hard cooked egg yolks to preserve the heat sensitive valuable carotenoids. Soft boiled, poached, sunny side up, or raw eggs are best.

Raw eggs may be eaten if they come from a reliable organic source and are washed prior to cracking. Samonella travels on the shell of the egg and enters the egg from the outside, so washing eggs with hot sudsy water minimizes exposure.

Avoid all processed and fried foods, sugar and sugar products, refined, simple carbohydrates, alcohol, and unhealthy hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils. Milk and dairy products should be consumed sparingly, and preferably raw and organic. Avoid conventional flesh foods and overcooked/grilled meats. In addition, test for food allergies and sensitivities and eliminate those foods that test positive.

Also be sure to drink plenty of pure, filtered water throughout the day, at least half your body weight in ounces, to help flush out accumulated debris in the eye drainage channels. Proper hydration is also essential for maintaining the suppleness of the eyes` lenses. Fresh raw green juices are also an important addition to one`s daily food plan. See the recipe section for green juice suggestions.

Eye Exercises: The following eye exercises are useful for preventing and reversing most types of vision problems.

Rest your eyes for five minutes every 30 to 60 minutes, relaxing your gaze and staring into space.
Blink your eyes regularly. This reduces eyestrain.
Take regular breaks throughout the day to breathe deeply for a few minutes, coupled with neck and shoulder stretching. This helps to ensure that your eye muscles receive adequate amounts of oxygen.
To further reduce facial tension, yawn in an exaggerated fashion. Doing so helps to stretch and relax your facial muscles.
Cover your eyes with you palms for five minutes and breathe deeply. Do this every one to two hours.
Spend 20 to 30 minutes each day rapidly switching your focus from near to far. An easy way to do this is to hold your finger six to eight inches from your eyes. Focus on it for a moment, then focus on an object in the distance. Keep changing your focus from near to far. This is an excellent way to exercise your eye muscles.
Roll your eyes all the way up and down in a full circular motion for five minutes, three to five times a day.
Pin a sheet of reading material to the wall and read it from two feet away (or closer if you need to). Each day, step further away from the wall. With regular practice, you will eventually be able to read the same material from across the room. If you are nearsighted, reverse this process, starting as far away from the sheet of paper as you need to be, then slowly moving closer each day until you are able to read it standing only a few inches away.
Juice Therapy: Drink 16 ounces of carrot juice and/or carrot juice combined with fresh squeezed celery, cucumber, parsley, and spinach in two divided doses (eight ounces per serving) each day.

Nutritional Supplementation: Useful nutrients include vitamin A, vitamin B complex, vitamin C, vitamin E, beta-carotene, flavonoids, lutein, N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC), riboflavin, selenium, taurine, zeaxthanin, and zinc.

Lifestyle: Avoid rubbing your eyes with your hands and fingertips, especially if your hands are unwashed. Frequent eye rubbing can cause the conjunctiva to become irritated and inflamed, and can also expose your eyes to harmful infectious agents such as bacteria and viruses.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): According to TCM theory, most vision problems are due to diminished liver function. To restore healthy liver function, TCM practitioners combine Acupuncture with dietary changes and traditional Chinese herbs, such as ginkgo biloba and ginseng.

Alternative Professional Care
The following professional care therapies have all been shown to be useful for preventing and treating cataracts: Detoxification Therapy, Environmental Medicine, Magnetic Therapy, and Naturopathic Medicine.

Best of health to you

Answer 2

The only cure for pinkeye is an opthalmic antibiotic prescribed my an MD. Pleas do not put polysporin in you childs eye. It is not pH balanced to your body and will sting like nothing youve ever felt. Be careful about washing your hands. Pinkeye(conjuctivitis) is very contagious.

Answer 3

Most cases of pink eye (conjunctivitis) is caused by a virus so just putting some soothing eye drop like Visine would be fine. That is what they taught us in my Residency. I alway Rx an antibiotic drop when I see a patient because I wouldn't want them to have to make another trip to the doctor if it wasn't viral. The Rx antibiotics are specially formulated for the eye (mainly sterile so as not to cause an infection). Use the OTC Neosporin at your own risk, though low.

Answer 4

When my kids were little and had frequent pink eye the doctor said to use polysporin (triple antibiotic ointment). Put some in the eye at bedtime and by morning it will clear up. It worked every time. Read the article linked below to confirm that it works. It is an antibiotic and is no different than what the doctor will prescribe if it's standard pink eye.

If it doesn't clear up in a day, take your child to a pediatrician.

Answer 5

My mom always used the eye ointment they send home with new babies. I don't know if they still do that but it's just an eye antibiotic called silver something or other(sorry can't remember actual name). My daughter gets a pink eye often. looks just like "pink eye" except Doc says its actually her allergies. If you err on side of cation best to go in to doc or clinic (if it's quicker/cheaper). If you feel like waiting it out (which is what I would do no need to put antibiotics in your eye if you don't have to.) wash often, ice down, and get OTC flushing type drops. See if it clears in a day or two.(I've found most of my families(brother sisters children ect..) clear with in 3 days or less).

Answer 6

Yes, go to the doctor - there are no home remedies. Pink eye is an infection, and cannot be treated without an antibiotic. It is also very contagious - so if you do not go to the doctor to get it cleared up - you are going to pass it around to your family as well as those you go to school with.

Answer 7

Depending on the cause, the doctor might be able to prescribe something to alleviate the symptoms and reduce the time it will take for it to go away. Try a cold compress.

Answer 8

yeah..the doctor can prescribe you with an opthalmic ointent or drops to fasten your healing.

Answer 9

yes. youre going to need to go to the doctor and theyll subscribe you to eye drops.

dont touch your eye...
and wash your hands a lot.
pink eye is contagious.
and even ifyou touch your eye and touch a door knob.
someone else could touch the doorknob, then their eye and catch it too.
not fun.

Answer 10

Absolutely, they won't let him in school with it. It's contagious. He needs medicated eye drops.

Answer 11

over the counter eye drops