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Conjunctivitis: Patients
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The treatment of conjunctivitis depends on what caused the condition. In all cases, warm compresses applied to the affected eye several times a day may help to reduce discomfort. Some treatment choices will be based on patient preference, convenience of use, and cost to the patient.
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Acute allergic conjunctivitis is typically itchy. Sometimes distressingly so, and the patient often complains of some lid swelling. Chronic allergy often causes just itch or irritation, and often much frustration because the absence of redness or discharge can lead to accusations of hypochondria.
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Like patients with bacterial conjunctivitis, those suffering from viral and allergic conjunctivitis will often report that their lids are matted shut in the morning with mucopurulent material. However, these patients actually have crusting of the lashes due to drying of tears and serous secretions, not the wet, sticky, mucopurulent matting characteristic of bacterial conjunctivitis. Too often, clinicians will consider the crusting of the lashes to be the same as the mucopurulent matting and misdiagnose the condition.
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Patients with severe allergic conjunctivitis may need to use any or all of the above medications with the addition of corticosteroid drops. Steroids should not be used over a long term as prolonged use may lead to cataracts or glaucoma in some patients.
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Prompt, appropriate treatment, available for most types of conjunctivitis, spares the patient needless suffering. Early detection may ... identify serious systemic disease. Early detection of conjunctivitis associated with neoplasms may be lifesaving.
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Medical intervention must be sought in all cases of chlamydial conjunctivitis and a specific type of ointment is used to treat the condition. Any sexually transmitted disease (STD) present must be treated, and the patient’s sexual partner will ... have to be treated.
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