#Bacterial Conjunctivitis

[heard-in-the-emergency-room]

Provider talking to patient, who was just diagnosed with bacterial conjunctivitis (pink eye)

Patient: how dark do the sunglasses need to be?

Provider: for what?

Patient: so I don’t give this to anyone else

Provider: (deep breath). How do you think pink eye is spread?

Patient: well I got it by looking at a girl with pink eye.

Provider: (deeper breath). No.

(And went on to explain how it is really spread)

[mediblogs-blog]

Eye infections can cause discomfort and disrupt daily life, but effective treatments like Gatifloxacin eye drops provide relief by targeting the root cause. Gatifloxacin, a fourth-generation fluoroquinolone antibiotic, is widely used to treat bacterial infections of the eye. Its broad-spectrum action makes it a popular choice for ophthalmologists and patients alike.

[asgeyecareindia]

Conjunctivitis, commonly known as “pink eye,” is an uncomfortable and contagious eye condition that affects people of all ages. Characterized by redness, itching, discharge, and discomfort in the eyes, conjunctivitis can result from various factors such as viruses, bacteria, allergies, and irritants. Given its contagious nature, prioritizing prevention and safety measures becomes essential. In this comprehensive guide, we will delve into the world of conjunctivitis, exploring its causes, symptoms, and most importantly, effective strategies for preventing its spread and ensuring safety.

[enterideahere]

still flabergasted that i solved my chronic UTIs with extensive medical research and not by giving money to doctors who were just telling me to drink cranberry juice.

[eileennatural]

emergency room on christmas eve. this might as well happen

[shreejeet]

Conjunctivitis, often recognized as pink eye, is an irritation of the thin, transparent layer masking the white section of the eye and the internal eyelids. It is characterized by signs and symptoms like redness, itching, tearing, and the sensation of having something in the eye.

Pink eye can be induced using viral, bacterial, or allergic factors, and it is noticeably contagious, effortlessly spreading via contact with contaminated persons or contaminated surfaces. Ongoing lookup objectives to recognize the range of motives and chance elements related to conjunctivitis, as well as creating extra wonderful remedy options.

[homemaderemedies]

Natural Remedies for Treating Eye Infections at Home

In this blog, we'll delve into various natural approaches to treat eye infections and provide a simple yet effective recipe for a homemade eye treatment.

Eye infections can be uncomfortable and irritating, but before rushing to the pharmacy for over-the-counter medications, consider exploring natural remedies that you can easily prepare at home. These homemade treatments can offer relief from symptoms and promote healing without the potential side effects of commercial eye drops. In this blog, we’ll delve into various natural approaches to treat…

[quillarchive]

Got a bad infection in my eye but at least it looks cool. Going as this eye for Halloween.

[farfromstrange]

Pink Eye | Matt Murdock x Reader

Matt Murdock Masterlist

Summary: You start the new year with a bad case of conjunctivitis and a cold. As annoyed as you are about it, fortunately for you, you have a very doting boyfriend to take care of you.

Warnings: Cursing, sickness, fluff.

WC: 1.2k

A/n: This is totally self-indulgent, and my first fic after a month (or so)! Don't worry, you're still getting those other Fictober prompts, this is just something that came to my mind yesterday and I had to write it. I wish I had a Matt Murdock to take care of me, so I wrote this. I hope I'm not too rusty.

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The cold compress seeps into the swollen skin of your eyelids, though it offers only a small reprieve from the ache and itchiness that make you want to claw your eyes out like a feral cat under attack.

Tissues lay strewn around the coffee table, each one soaked in tears and whatever else came out when you wiped them dry. The apartment reminds you more of the set of a bad chick-flick rather than a home. Most of the time it resembles a crime scene or a poorly supplied hospital when your risk-friendly boyfriend decides he just has to get himself into another fight for the greater good, but this New Year’s, the only casualty that came out of the holidays is you—defeated by your own immune system. 

You haven’t been properly sick in a year. For 366 days, you’ve been free of any viral or bacterial infections, and the one time you decide to have dinner with your family you end up with a nasty infection: conjunctivitis. Yes, you started the new year with fucking pink eye and a cold, and now you’re stuck at home for your last few days off work, feeling miserably sorry for yourself.

“Here,” Matt appears in your one functioning line of sight with a bowl of soup in hand, “You need to eat something.”

“Thank you,” you say through a congested nose, and he can’t help but smile at how adorable that sounds.

“How’re you feeling?”

“Like I want to put a finger into my eye and scratch it out.”

He raises his eyebrows. “So, not good?”

You shake your head. “I’m annoyed. And in pain. And I can’t fucking breathe!” As if to underline your frustration, your lungs constrict and you cough up a not-so-delicious ball of phlegm. 

Matt’s hand instantly moves to your back, rubbing gentle circles until the oxygen returns to where it needs to be. Your breathing becomes rapid before it slows down again, and you swallow.

“Fuck me,” you mumble.

“When you’re feeling better,” he retorts almost cheekily, but the joke doesn’t get much of a response. He knows how miserable you are. He can hear it in the way you breathe, your elevated heartbeat, and the pulsing of the skin around the infected eye. You wear your discomfort on your very sleeves. He doesn’t want to imagine what it feels like for you.

Instead of joking any more, Matt gently removes the compress from your eye. “Let me get you a new one,” he offers. Your first instinct is to cover up. It baffles him; you haven’t hidden from him in a very long time.

Matt takes your hand and places it back down in your lap, a worried frown creasing his forehead. “Don’t do that.” 

“I look like I got into a fight,” you say.

At that, he reaches out, fingers gently brushing just above your brow, down your temple, and over the apple of your cheek. He can feel the heat radiating from your skin, the inflammation that’s causing your eye to swell, but the picture his fingertips paint is a stark contrast to your own description. 

“No, you don’t,” he says. And Matt knows better than anyone what one might look like after a fight.

His touch is so gentle, far away from where you’re hurting but close enough to feel his need to fix you. To heal you. To take your pain away and make it his own just so you wouldn’t have to suffer anymore. Your heart flutters like a newborn butterfly. You look into his hazel eyes, how soft they are, and it makes you melt. If you could only see yourself the way he sees you... The way he loves you seems like a gift from God himself. 

His touch disappears, and you bite back a pathetic whimper. “Be right back,” he says.

You watch as he rises to his feet and heads back to the kitchen, grabbing another cool compress from the fridge before returning to your side.

“There you go.” He places it against your eye and holds it there. “So you can eat.”

You want to say, ‘You’re doing too much’, but then you realize that you’re with the kind of man who would shoulder the world for you even when he’s already drowning to make sure life is just a little easier for you. And while that feels like entirely too much, more than you deserve, you can’t find it in yourself to tell him to stop. Not that he would do so, anyway. 

Every bone in your body aches, but the pain blurs in comparison to what he makes you feel. 

You take the bowl of soup he prepared and dig in. It’s your favorite, yet scarcely seasoned to not irritate your throat any further. When your stomach is finally full and he’s satisfied, he reaches for the bottle of eyedrops standing tall amongst the graveyard of tissues. He knows to think about everything when you can’t. 

“Lean back,” he instructs softly. 

“I don’t want you to get sick,” you protest. 

“I won’t. I know you hate doing this yourself. Now lean back.”

He’s even more stubborn when you’re sick, but only because you’re stubborn, too. You don’t protest further, simply leaning your head back to give him better access. 

Matt gently searches for your lower lid with his fingers, pulling it back ever so gently before squeezing the first drop in. Then, he moves on to the second eye. Your eyes instinctively squeeze shut at the sudden intrusion. It burns. Will it ever stop, you wonder? 

“I’m sorry,” he wipes away any excess tears threatening to escape, “it’ll get better in a second.” 

You huff a breath of disapproval, but not at his words. “I’m never visiting my family again unless they give me a detailed list of who’s sick,” you say. 

Matt stutters for a moment, then bursts out laughing.

“I’m serious! Small children are little Petri dishes, carrying viruses and bacteria that continue to mutate into God knows what. Petri dishes, Matthew!” 

You sound so beside yourself, he can’t help himself. He adds the used tissue to the coffee table pile and pulls you into his arms, his laugh rumbling against the top of your head as he presses his lips against your heated scalp. “This is New York, sweetheart,” he says, “the entire city is a Petri dish.”

“And I will avoid it like the plague if I have to.”

He chuckles. “Okay.” A pause, and then, “You’re so much moodier when you’re sick.”

If you had the strength you would smack his pretty face for that statement alone, but you really, really don’t. You can barely sit up on your own. So, you nudge him with your elbow and grumble, “Shut up.”

With a bright smile on his face, he gives you another squeeze. “I love you too,” he says.

You squeeze his bicep three times to assure him that yes, you do love him, and you can’t help but think that perhaps being coddled in Matt Murdock’s arms while recovering from a little infection isn’t so bad, after all. It certainly could be worse. 

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[kohiiflux]

The unexpected winner of Flori's affection. I swear, I will make a comic of this detailing the reason a few days after this just because to let everyone play.

(Yes I finished an updated content in four days, I have bacterial conjunctivitis and I have to stay home).

[asgeyecareindia]

Conjunctivitis, or pink eye, is an inflammation of the conjunctiva, the thin, transparent layer of tissue that lines the inside of the eyelids and covers the white area of the eye. It may be brought on by a number of things, such as bacterial or viral infections, allergies, irritants, or even underlying medical concerns.

[buttfrovski]

pikn eye

Conjunctivitis occurs when the conjunctiva becomes inflamed due to an infection or an irritant. As a result of this inflammation, the blood vessels in the conjunctiva dilate, causing redness or hyperemia, and the conjunctiva can also become swollen.

The inflammation affects the entire conjunctiva, and depending on the cause, discharge may also be present. Bacterial conjunctivitis occurs when the eye's surface tissues are colonized by normal flora like Staphylococci sp., Streptococci, and Corynebacteria. The epithelial covering of the conjunctiva is the primary defense mechanism against infection, and any disruption in this barrier can lead to infection.[39] Secondary defense mechanisms include immune reactions carried out by the tear film immunoglobulins and lysozyme, conjunctival vasculature, and the rinsing action of blinking and lacrimation.

[garrettandoscargirlsblog]

Can't believe it! Have bacterial conjunctivitis! Woke up with an itchy eye! Then watery ! Followed by runny nose! Mean have to rest my eyes! Have eye drops, Flonase,and ointment! Sigh.. need my boys!

[autisticlaezel]

One day I will understand that a virus or bacterial infection will, in fact, go away again, but clearly that day is far into the future

Suffering

[giulliadella]

YES I SURVIVED PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION AND MADE A CELLS AT WORK COMIC ABOUT IT BECAUSE I CAN!

The original Cells at work and all its characters belong to Akane Shimizu!!!

I am too dumb to draw mangas, so read left to right:

To explain some shit:

1. I had azithromycin because I’m kinda allergic to penicillin and I researched how it works. Basically, lots of the antibiotic collects inside the granules of phagocytes (aka. macrophages and neutrophils) and then they de-granulate upon encountering bacteria and fuck them up. Degranulation in Cells at Work is represented with their weapons, hence they got cool new weapon!

2. Azithromycin is a bacteriostatic which means that it causes them to stop reproducing and blocks their protein production. “Molecular machinery” refers to bacterial ribosomes, DNA and other components necessary for protein production.

3. The pills I got were light blue, so I made the antibiotic into blue lightsabers because I can and it’s cool.

4. I had to ship 1146 and 3803. I just had, sorry not sorry.

5. My artstyle is shit for Cells at work, but I don’t care one bit. I’m going to disappear from Tumblr for a little while to work on my actual webcomic that looks decent in this shit artstyle.

6. Yes I was sick for two weeks, it was most likely acute Streptococcus pneumoniae sinus infection. And I also got conjunctivitis, because of course I did. I’m fine now and this comic served as a very good catharsis.

[eirianerisdar]

Carlos is so confusing to me in an endearing way like. In pictures it looks like he has conjunctivitis, which means his eye probably got infected earlier, but he thinks it happened from the moment a bug flew into his eyeball???

I’m actually really glad you sent in this ask! Conjunctivitis can be viral, bacterial, allergic, or irritative. In Carlos’s case here, it was irritative, because a bug got in his eye and irritated the conjunctiva. Infection has nothing to do with it.

The -itis suffix in medicine just means inflammation, and inflammation does not automatically equal infection. Tendinitis for example is often caused by overuse or repetitive strain.

This is why doctors ask detailed histories! Patients can present similarly but the treatment can differ depending on cause.