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Conjunctivitis a.k.a. Pink Eye
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ditto that! My son had it just a tad--we used the drops and it cleared up, than behold!! I felt something funny in one of my eyes, something like a fly going into it. Just didn't feel right and started to bother me. I used the drops just as a precaution, and I was fine. My wife tells me that it feels like an insect in your eye, with very little sensation of a insect bite. This is how it starts, so get them drops in asap! even if you think you may have it.
You might have been told by the doctor that it was 'too much sun' but actually that is urban legend (read utter balderdash :cheeky
. It can be bacterial or viral or maybe even caused by irritants or allergy based.Conjunctivitis: Causes, Symptoms and Treatments
Once you have it exposure to sun may well increase the discomfort but it doesn't cause the problem in the first place.
Just run it by the common sense test & ask yourself, if it was too much sun, why would antibiotic drops be prescribed?
You are right Lambada, The conjunctivitis doing the rounds currently is bacterial and will usually start with a rather unpleasant yellow discharge in one eye. I would advise anyone with small children, in fact i would advise everyone to get a bottle or two, per lambadas advice as Mr LJ has terrible trouble finding it in Higuey today, It took him two hours going from one chemist to another and finally found one and was told it was their last bottle.
I would tell you the name but i have put them down somewhere and cant see where they are for the life of me. I feel actually very bad, but i believe the name of the drops has already been mentioned a few times. Thank fully my little girl seems to have improved but has worsened since yesterday, but i am walking round the house like Jackie Onassis with huge dark sunglasses, well if your going to be ill, may as well do it style
I would tell you the name but i have put them down somewhere and cant see where they are for the life of me. I feel actually very bad, but i believe the name of the drops has already been mentioned a few times. Thank fully my little girl seems to have improved but has worsened since yesterday, but i am walking round the house like Jackie Onassis with huge dark sunglasses, well if your going to be ill, may as well do it style
Ha Ha, just spent best part of five minutes searching for my sunglasses, picking up the wrong things and touching everything for some kind of idea what it might be and yes the sunglasses were on top of my head the whole time!
I had a really bad case of conjunctivitis a couple of years ago, that I caught here. I went to the farmacia and was given some drops that didnt do anything. I went back to the US and tried some homeopathic drops which eased the discomfort but didn't get rid of the infection. I then went to an eye doctor who prescribed TobraDex, made by Alcon. I paid about $70 (!!) for a tiny bottle, but followed the directions and it went away after a couple of days.
About a year later I got it again and went to the Farmacia and bought the Tobradex here...I believe it was about 500 pesos for the same bottle.
Several of my friends here in Cabarete had it a few weeks ago (not me this time, luckily!)...I recommended the Tobradex and it worked for everyone...
About a year later I got it again and went to the Farmacia and bought the Tobradex here...I believe it was about 500 pesos for the same bottle.
Several of my friends here in Cabarete had it a few weeks ago (not me this time, luckily!)...I recommended the Tobradex and it worked for everyone...
Hmmm interesting....
Just a thought but could these common outbreaks have any connection to bacteria in the water supply that is transferred to the eyes from showering/washing the face?
Apparently outcreaks are common here after lots of rain fall like we have just seen recently. Maybe stagnant water or dirty water leaking into cisternas , not sure.
After reading that it was getting hard to find the medicine I bought some Ciproquinol drops this morning, RD$350. None of us has got conjunctivitis, but at least we won't have to drive around the eastern region to find it if/when it strikes.
Water table here is pretty near the surface & people bury dead pets, livestock, narcotraffickers :cheeky: etc & as these decompose the bacteria released will enter water supply. On which happy note I shall go prepare supper
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This is my supper. Cover in salt and oregano, hang on line in sun all day, hope flies land on them because if the flies don't like them they must be bad, then fry!!! Delicious.
You serious?
For anyone not able to find Oftalbiotic or the drops Chiri recommends, there are imported drops but of course these are more expensive. Local brands are 200-350 pesos, imported start at 500. Maxitrol from Costa Rica is ok (RD$550) - it contains dexametasona & sulfato de neomicina.
Cures fish-eye too
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They look like Red Snapper which is my favorite.
I might have to try this out here in NY.
Thanks for the tip.
For anyone not able to find Oftalbiotic or the drops Chiri recommends, there are imported drops but of course these are more expensive. Local brands are 200-350 pesos, imported start at 500. Maxitrol from Costa Rica is ok (RD$550) - it contains dexametasona & sulfato de neomicina.
Cures fish-eye too
My tame physic recommends Tobradex drops or ointment.
Brazilian made and available at better farmacias here.
Not cheap but extreeeeemely effective - contains
tobramicine, dextamatason and cloruro de benzalconio.
So the good news is no-one need panic if one type of effective eye drops isn't available because there are clearly many effective alternatives.