Your parents probably called it “pink eye” but your doctor will call it by its medical name, conjunctivitis. Often accompanied by swollen eyelids, sensitivity to light, itching, redness and tearing, conjunctivitis is a common and often highly contagious condition caused by irritation of the membrane that lines your eyelids and the outer parts of your ...
-OVERVIEW OF CONJUNCTIVITIS- Conjunctivitis is the medical term for a condition which is more commonly known to the general public as Pink Eye. In some cases this condition is caused by allergies, but in most instances its cause is rooted in a viral infection. Some of the viruses which can cause conjunctivitis are extraordinarily contagious. ...
Pinkeye, or conjunctivitis, is a condition that turns the whites of one, or both, of your eyes pink. When you have pinkeye, your eyes swell and itch. And there might be a discharge that gets crusty when it dries. Lots of things can cause pinkeye, including allergens, pollution, chemicals, or irritants in the air. You ...
Pink eye is a less technical term for a condition known as conjunctivitis, where the membrane the lines your eyeball and eyelid is inflamed or infected. Pink eye is highly contagious; children are often sent home from school with the affliction. Pink eye results from a bacterial or a viral infection, and it may crop ...
Cat eye care is important when it comes to maintaining the overall health of your cat. Feline eye problems can be the sign of anything from allergies and upper respiratory infection, to fatal aliments such as the feline leukemia, feline AIDS and feline infectious peritonitis (FIP). Proper vaccination against these fatal diseases is essential when ...
We’ve all been there, either as a child, as a parent or as a patient ourselves. You wake up one morning and find a bit of goo oozing from your eye. The eye is pink and maybe itchy. After cleansing the eye thoroughly, you wash your hands (after all, you don’t want to spread those ...
When you wake up in the morning with itchy, red eyes that seem to itch, burn and sting, all at the same time, it is most likely conjunctivitis, also known as pink eye. Conjunctivitis is an infection of the eye caused by a viris, an allergen or a bacteria, which is not curable, but treatable. ...
Dogs, like their human companions, can suffer from a variety of eye diseases and conditions. These conditions can be congenital-meaning they are present from birth, or they can be due to old age, as well as viral, bacterial and fungal infections. Understanding some of the common canine eye diseases is important for owners of dogs ...
Most patients assume that if they have red, irritated, or teary eyes that they have an eye infection commonly called “pink eye”, but is it really an infection or could it be something else? What Is Pink Eye? “Pink eye” is a non-medical, common term, used to describe the medical disease conjunctivitis. Conjunctivitis is the ...
If you were to wake up one morning with one of your eye or both eyes feeling itchy, irritated, swollen, with eyelids stuck together and your eyes looking reddened or bloodshot. You most likely would be having the signs and symptoms of conjunctivitis also called “Pink Eye.” Conjunctivitis is inflammation of the membrane that covers ...
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