How to cure conjunctivitis quickly

Conjunctivitis is a very common disease in daily life. It can cause great harm to the patient's eyes and seriously affect people's life and work. Therefore, it is particularly important to find a scientific and effective treatment method. Pay attention to maintaining good personal hygiene and seek medical treatment in time. Avoid rubbing your eyes with your hands. This will help the recovery of the disease. Friends in need can try it.

1. How to care for conjunctivitis

1. Avoid rubbing your eyes with your hands: When conjunctivitis causes itching and pain, children should be reminded not to rub their eyes with their hands, because rubbing the eyes can easily bring bacteria or viruses on the hands into the eyeball and aggravate the infection, and it is also easy to transfer bacteria in the eyes to the hands and infect others.

2. Avoid infecting others: Children often live and study in a group environment, and it is difficult to avoid contact between children. Eye secretions are highly contagious, so it is best not to go out when suffering from infectious conjunctivitis. Objects that have been touched should be disinfected to prevent infection to others.

3. Rinse the eyes: When the child has a lot of eye secretions, rinse with normal saline, but it must be done under the guidance of a doctor. Wipe the eyelid margin with a sterilized cotton swab before rinsing. The secretions need to be wiped off before applying eye drops each time to improve the efficacy.

4. Do not cover the affected eye: Children with conjunctivitis will have irritation symptoms such as photophobia and tearing. They can wear sunshade glasses when going out to reduce irritation, but should avoid covering the affected eye. Because covering it will prevent secretions from being discharged, and at the same time increase the local temperature and humidity of the conjunctival sac, it is conducive to the reproduction of bacteria or viruses and aggravates the condition.

2. How to prevent conjunctivitis?

1. Maintain good personal hygiene and wash your hands thoroughly before and after touching your eyes. It is best not to touch your eyes with your hands.

2. Do not share towels or personal items with others, and wash your face and hands with running water. Avoid contact with the patient's used face wash utensils, handkerchiefs, and medical instruments used in treatment.

3. Do not wipe your face with the towels provided by the restaurant to avoid infection with conjunctivitis due to incomplete disinfection of the towels.

4. Do not share eye drops, eye medicines, eye cosmetics and other medicines or supplies that may come into contact with the eyes with others. Do not use collective eye drops to prevent eye diseases.

5. Patients with conjunctivitis should be properly isolated and avoid going to public places such as dance halls, hotels, and shopping malls. It is strictly forbidden to swim in public swimming pools to prevent infection to others.

6. During the epidemic period, pay attention to disinfect public faucets, elevator handrails, door handles, telephones, utensils, toys, etc. Wash your hands after touching the computer keyboard, and avoid rubbing your eyes or face, especially if you use a public keyboard.

7. During the epidemic period, try to avoid going to crowded public places.