Easy Tips Of How to Treat Pink Eye without Doctor

How to treat pink eye can be so useful tips for they who get the pink eye because it must be treated as soon as possible. Pink eye is one of diseases which is caused by bacteria, virus or allergy. Actually, this illness is not so dangerous, but it can be so disturbing because it infects your eyes. When you have been infected by this illness, your eyes will be itchy and there will be mucous. Your eyes also will be reddish. When it has been totally infected, your eyes can be swelling. With those symptoms, surely you can imagine how disturbing it is. Luckily, this illness can be cured easily, even you can treat it without any special medicine.

Commonly, if you go to doctor, you will only get antibiotic eye drops or ointments because it is caused by bacteria or virus. If you are not interested to visit doctor, you can do your own home remedies when talking about how to treat pink eye . First thing you have to do is to release your contact lens if you wear it. During the treatments, you should not wear it and make sure that you have cleaned the lens well. After that, you can start to compress your eyes. In compressing, you can use hot or cold compress. Commonly, cold compress will be effective if your pink eye is caused by allergy and the hot one can be effective if it is caused by infection of bacteria.

Another thing about how to treat pink eye is that when you clean up your eye with the compress, you have to make sure that you wipe your eye correctly. In wiping, you have to use one direction only and you must use clean tissue or washcloths. In wiping, you have to start from inner part (close to your nose) to the outer part. In wiping, you have to change the tissue or washcloths, so the bacteria will not return. After using the tissues, you have to put them to trash, or if you use washcloths, you have to wash it soon to prevent spreading of the bacteria. You also can use any antibiotic eye drops or ointment.