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What Could Be The Cause Of Redness And Stickiness On The Eye Lashes On Waking Up ?

After swimming in a pool,, where the water looked bit cloudy so i didn t put my head under it,, my eyes got red and in the morning there was gunk and stickiness around my eyelashes along with redness .. i had worn contact lenes also.. I applied some antibacterial eye drops and didn t wear my contact lenses for 3 days and the redness started to go away.... so i started to use my contact lenses for daytime use again and i woke up with redness and gunk around my eyelashes again.... Whats the cause of this infection...??? Whats the best medication for this... im putting in amino glyricocide solution... thank you
Tue, 10 Apr 2012
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Dear Friend,
From your description it seems that after bath you developed swimming pool conjunctivitis later got complicated by ?bacterial conjunctivitis secondary to contact lens (contact lens keratitis). With initial medicines your conjunctivitis resolved.
With reuse of contact lens the contact lens keratitis (probably bacterial) re-occurred.
I advice you to discard your contact lenes, use antibiotics 1. fluoroquinalones and 2. aminoglycosides, in a high dose (hourly dose), use glasses for couple of weeks and then plan for the new pair of contact lenses.
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What Could Be The Cause Of Redness And Stickiness On The Eye Lashes On Waking Up ?

Dear Friend, From your description it seems that after bath you developed swimming pool conjunctivitis later got complicated by ?bacterial conjunctivitis secondary to contact lens (contact lens keratitis). With initial medicines your conjunctivitis resolved. With reuse of contact lens the contact lens keratitis (probably bacterial) re-occurred. I advice you to discard your contact lenes, use antibiotics 1. fluoroquinalones and 2. aminoglycosides, in a high dose (hourly dose), use glasses for couple of weeks and then plan for the new pair of contact lenses.