You cant you need a prescription for an antibiotic that they don't sell over the counter.
2007-01-10 12:09:53
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answer #1
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answered by Hi 7
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A good 90% of the time conjunctavitis will go away on its own. Keep the area clean, wash your hands and don't touch your face without washing afterwards. Pick up some saline eye drops (non-medicated). To help the process, keep a warm compress (run hot water on a washcloth and wring it out) on it as often as you can. Make sure you don't touch your other eye with it or it can spread to both eyes. If it doesn't start to clear in the next 3 days, ot it DOES spread to the other eye, head to the doctor...you'll need drops with medication in them. Don't wait longer than three days, unless you'd like to compromise your eyesight.
Good luck!
2007-01-10 12:12:47
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answered by dancing_in_the_hail 4
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Pink Eye can be either viral or bacterial
If it's viral, going to the doctor is not going to do anything, anyway.
Here's what you should do: Use advil to releive the pain and swelling, apply a cold compress to the eye when needed, take benadryl, use saline eye drops if necessary.
Make sure to wash your hands and don't touch your eye. It's highly contagious... you don't want to get it in your other eye.
HOWEVER, if it doesn't get better in a couple of days, GO SEE A DOCTOR... you may require anti biodics or steriods to reduce inflammation.
2007-01-10 12:10:49
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answered by Tiff 5
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you cant get rid of pink eye without antibiotics which are by perscription only its a bacteria to get rid of it you have to kill it there is pink eye relief over the counter but it wont kill bacteria and the pink eye will almost certainlly come back
2007-01-10 12:09:07
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answered by Danielle 2
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dear,you cann't avoid going to the doctor all the time.Pink eyes have hundreds of causes.It may just be a foreign partical or it can also be a glaucoma which is dangerous to the vision.Why are you avoiding?
Please see an eye doctor and get it checked.
Take care.
2007-01-11 03:21:53
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answered by A J 2
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if it is really pink eye you need antibiotic ointment....be careful its contagious, can spread to both eyes, and without treatment it can eventually blind you
2007-01-10 12:09:12
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answered by irish eyes 5
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