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Conjunctivitis: Neonatal Conjunctivitis
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Neonatal conjunctivitis is a red eye in a newborn caused by irritation, a blocked tear duct, or infection. Reviewer: Deirdre O Reilly, MD, MPH, Neonatologist, Division of Newborn Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston and Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Review Provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.Date: 10/15/2007
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Neonatal conjunctivitis found in newborn babies can cause blindness when left untreated. Up to 10% of all pregnant women in the United States have a sexually transmitted chlamydial infection. If these infections are untreated in mothers, the possibility that a newborn infant will develop a related eye infection ranges from 10% to 20%.*
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Giemsa staining is performed to look for the inclusion bodies of Chlamydia versus a viral etiology in culture-negative conjunctivitis. This technique has a low yield, except in neonatal inclusion conjunctivitis. The presence of eosinophils is diagnostic of allergic conjunctivitis.
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The viruses that cause genital and oral herpes can ... cause neonatal conjunctivitis and severe eye damage. Such viruses may also be passed to the baby during childbirth. However, herpes conjunctivitis is less common than conjunctivitis caused by gonorrhea and chlamydia.
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